Summer Project 2: Nearly there!

Well. all the soldering has been done, and after a quick test I managed to pick up Signal 2 and Absolute Radio! Just need to make a box out of wood to store it, and experiment with Antenna's and earth wires.

Just the last few to go in.

Soldering has improved since I started to use a flux pen, much easier for the solder to stick!

Completed! The circuit on the left can be substituted for the one on the right. Hopefully I'll upload a video demonstrating how it works. Anyway, just need to build a box for it. Any ideas what wood to use?

Summer Holiday project 2: Update

After a bit of soldering the first board is complete. Its designed to pick up HF radio, each resisitor is connected to a variable capacitor that basicly tunes the frequency, just like normal radio.

Took me a while to get used to soldering, and Ive not managed to burn myself yet..

Any way here's what it looks like so far..

And the back..

Soldering is ok, might need tidying up later. Just need to cut the excess wires from the components.

The second board that picks up Am radio is more or less the same, just different resistors.

Summer Holiday Project 2

The second project for the summer holidays arrived today! Brought a Poldhu kit off ebay. Basicly its a mini shortwave radio) Well its in its component parts so Ive got to solder it all together. This throws up a few problems...

1. Its been a while since I've done any soldering
2. The soldering I did do was a bit low grade... the sort you'd expect in a cheap musical thing you pick up at a tourist trap beech hut in Bogner Regis.

Anyway here is a picture of the kit

Hopefully I'll get some pictures of it being built, unless I  forget or burn myself with the soldering iron.


More info on Marconi's Wireless station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldhu

Summer Holiday Project 1

Whilst watching Countryfile (a programme we have in the UK about the countryside) there was a part about a guy called Thomas Wardle, who developed a way of dying Silk from India. Anyway the programme mentioned he went onto to produce Seal Cloth that went onto to produce water-proof clothes.

Well as soon as I heard Seal Cloth, me being me I thought "Which is used to make Seals that help fishermen catch fish"

Anyway the idea for the first project is to get some history books, and re-write them. The idea being half the facts are real, the rest are made up in a comedic way.

I shall call them... The Almost accurate History Of.... (insert town/village name here)

Summer Holidays

Well Summer is here, and Im off Uni till September.. and Im not going to be sitting around doing nothing. So Ive got a few projects lined up to keep me occupied! Follow me on this journey, and ask questions.... or just wander why the hell Im doing what Im doing!