We design, build and test interesting, bespoke renewable energy systems for small and medium power applications.
We also provide renewable energy monitoring and data-logging systems.
We provide a variety of training lectures and hands-on workshops, catering to a range of abilities.
Subjects include: renewable energy system design, off-grid power systems and electronics education.
I’ve blogged a bit before on my small (300mm x 200mm) milling machine. This was broken, due to a power supply failure, and also, as it used the parallel port for stepper motor control, I needed to use an old legacy machine with a real-time linux kernel. Because of this I have barely been using … more
Until now I’d not taken the leap into the world of 3D printing. I’d followed the various designs as they improved but always thought that the outputs from the lower cost printers did not look professional enough. Also the time taken to print items did not lean towards mass production for the kits I sell … more
We needed to hightlight some locations on a very large map (3m x 4m!). These locations needed to be lit up as a pedal powered race between two people and needed to display which person had lit them up first. We developed some LED ‘pixels’ based on 24 LED Neo-pixel rings. These lit up in … more
We were asked to build another pedal powered Scalextric for a promotions company. Here are some photos of the build and the final unit – no photos of it in action yet, but hopefully updated soon. … more
