Wobblycogs Workshop

  • Looking at the date on the last post it’s been 6 years since I last touched this project. Over on mycncuk, where I was getting input from people who know what they are doing, it seems to be saying it’s…

  • A friend asked me if I could make some wooden rosettes / bosses for the house he is doing up. The doorways (and windows) have decorative surrounds and these are positioned at the top corners. I made a around twenty…

  • Well it turns out that lock picking is addictive. I’ve been going a few days and I’ve already got my yellow belt and I’ve opened a lock for my orange belt (Master Lock 150). I’ve bought another lock for my…

  • Below is a table of the locks I own and, if I’ve picked them, a date when I first picked it. I started picking Christmas 2022 so you can see how long it takes to learn the skill. I’ve organised…

  • For a while now I’ve been having a problem with the outfeed roller on my planer thicknesser. While thicknessing the machine will make a loud banging sound and the wood will fail to emerge from the machine. For a while…

  • I was recently given a set of lock picks and I’ve found it to be a surprisingly addictive pastime. The picks came with some acrylic learning locks which were far too easy, only the Euro lock cylinder even vaguely put…

  • End of April to Early May I’ve been a slack when it comes to updating the garden diary lately but it’s doing pretty well. All but the lettuce has been moved out in to the cold frame I built a…

  • While sharing a Double Decker with my son the other day I mentioned to him that we could do better, we could make a Triple Decker. So we did, this is the recipe. Just make the nougat first and then…

  • I decided to skip the February article because, well, not much happened. The entire family came down with covid and us olds were hit pretty hard, certainly hard enough we couldn’t do anything other than watering. Right at the end…

  • This page covers my experience of growing Gardeners Delight tomatoes during 2022. I’m far from an expert so I wouldn’t necessarily copy what you find here. I’ll be planting twelve plants in our small, south facing, vegetable patch. I’ve grown…

  • We’ve tried gardening on and off a fair few times over the years but we’ve never had the level of success that we really wanted. Possibly our best year was 2020 when we had all the time in the world…

  • The default install of a Raspberry Pi will create a user with the username “pi” and the password “raspberry”. If you are only accessing this machine via it’s hardware interfaces (e.g. you have a keyboard plugged in) then this isn’t…

  • The default hostname for a Raspberry Pi is “raspberrypi” which is great if you’ve only got one Pi but as soon as you add a second to the network things start getting a bit confusing. This quick guide will show…

  • While the default Raspberry Pi desktop is fairly lightweight as far as desktops go it’s still quite a burden on a small device like a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. Something like the Zero often finds itself used in an environment…

  • Back in 2020 with the pandemic just starting I decided to grow some chillies. This isn’t the first time I’ve tried, way back in my first home I grew a few chillies from seeds that I collected from supermarket chillies.…