Email

If you'd like to email me about anything on this site, my address is:

the dot mechatronics dot guy at gmail dot com

Donate Button

Now with 'Donate' button on the off-chance there's philanthropic millionaires out there! :)

Dozens of people told me I should patent or make a business selling Light Scythes. I'm not really into that (but it's open source, so feel free to make your own!) But if you want to sling me cash, I promise to spend it on nifty projects.

Cool Thing Of The Week

I'm a member of the Sydney Hackspace, Robots and Dinosaurs. We're starting to run a weekly segment called 'Cool Thing Of The Week', where we do whatever short project or hack catches our fancy and document it to share with everyone.

I'm putting a duplicate of our blog posts here, so I can keep track of them, and we can add information later if people do more.


Finding the Hotspots of a Microwave Oven Using a Thermal Camera

Here's an idea we had to see exactly how our microwave was heating stuff.
  
Turns out that there's a surprisingly repeatable pattern in the standing waves.