We’re going public today with KnowYourStuffNZ and the drug checking work that Wendy has led at festivals this summer. It’s a Wendy on TV: NZ’s PM agrees that drug checking at festivals is a good idea – ‘People can see what they’re taking is dangerous’ – legal festival drug testing could be a good …
Four hour ride, starting from home, to top of Makara Peak and back. 80% off-road, mostly flowing single-track. Including new bridge.
In 2010/11, we planted out the first living roof on a home in Wellington. It’s been just fine. The initial plants were a mix of succulents, seddums, and native ground cover. The roof has enough variation of sun, wind, and shade that some did well in areas, some in others, and nothing died out. Since then, koromiko …
My reference run goes from home in Brooklyn, along the road to Kingston, into the Tawatawa reserve and down Wharangi to Carlucci Land, up the Tip Track, along Barking Emu and Car Parks to the wind turbine, down Sawmill and Aston Fitchett and past the war memorial. 15.6 kilometres and I don’t know the height …
From wood left over from the house build, bolted to wall and floor, and flat and level. Possibly making the top from three layers of 18 mm ply is overkill. Possibly not.
A friend lives out in the Sounds, way out beyond where the electricity grid stops, so her lighting is solar and candles. So I made a candle holder as a birthday present. I’d had something else made in the transparent ColorFabb filament and I liked how it looks with a light behind it, so thought …
It’s been a good summer and now it’s time to catch up/write up all the fun. Back in December we went to a bay in Tennyson Inlet in the Marlborough Sounds, like way out the back, almost to French Pass, for a friend’s birthday. Her family have lived out there stretching back several generations. It’s …
Everyone was delighted that we were there with Wendy’s project (second pic down). I am amused that my snarky “Giant Scabies” sign is now a thing. It’s a commercial festival, so all the friendly people wanting to start a conversation with you want to sell you something. I rapidly stopped seeing people as people and …
In short: I am going to continue to push for reform of drug policies because a friend is likely to die of his addiction problems. I’ve just come back from a New Year’s Eve festival where we were helping to provide a pill testing service. People who were planning to take substances could come to us …
TL;DR: Tiny soldering leads to a Teeny that can tell when its battery is being charged I’ve been using and loving Onehorse’s STBC08 High-Current LiPo Battery Charger. It sits on the back of a Teensy, you plug in a lithium battery, it charges off USB and has a host of LEDs to let you know what …
And this week in “Jez makes things”… Rebate guides on planers are awesome. I’m going to rebate everything now, for ever more. Also, Fusion 360 makes it really easy to turn models into drawings. Admittedly, three of the five components here were just rectangles so the drawings were pretty simple, but it’s all practice, right?
Bonus free internet points to anyone who can spot what I edited out.
I’m taking a break from spinning LED things and doing something else. My Kiwiburn art project is not: A drone that hovers relaxingly just above the heads of meditating people The Bureau of Unerotic Discourse A large-scale video display with one foot per pixel, like a literal foot A trebuchet that launches hippies into the …
While lying on damp, cold, and hard ground at Kiwiburn one night, we decided that festivals are more fun when dry, warm, soft, and fluffy. So we made a festival blanket that we named the Flying Carpet – fluff on the top, waterproof underneath, padding in the middle, and LED animations around the edge (Teensy, …
In short: the Mitochondrion looks as stunning as I hoped for about five years ago. My journey into the obsession of making LED staffs About five years ago, I stopped fire spinning and started building LED staffs. I wanted to have images hanging in space around me while I am spinning staff. Technology (and my …
We’ve had a bee swarm come past once before, but this one settled. So we rang Tricia and Martin from the Wellington Beekeepers Assocation and set about collecting the swarm. Andrea in a borrowed suit: Terrorist? Or Burning Man? Or makeshift bee photographer? Of course, the swarm was up a tree on the steepest and …
My new countersinking technique is unstoppable.