Saturday 31 August 2013

Scooter Death - so proud of my son

Well again it's happened. Every so often I get home and find my teenage son sat on the chair, dejected and fed up holding a broken stunt scooter. Scootering is his life and I have seen him grow with confidence to do stunts I would never have attempted as a teenager.
Its an ideal hobby, he spends hours outside doing a quite physical sport and it keeps him from being glued to the X-Box.

He doesn't ask to be changing scooters every 5 minutes like some of his friends who are less able and who have parents who give in to every whim their kids have. He is a very level headed and unspoiled and I am so proud of how he has turned out as I am for both my sons.

I find it quite refreshing to find a kid that doesn't expect to get things at every request and who has no interest in drinking, drugs or anything negative that you hear being levelled at young people today. He keeps out the way of trouble and is doing brilliantly at school.

So I guess my new glasses will have to wait a month so I can give him his life back, the least I can do for being such a good lad.

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Light Following Robot

Here is my light following robot that I built from a kit of parts I bought from maplins. The robot uses a simple circuit using discreet components to make the robot track towards the light.

The circuit uses LDR (light dependant resistors) cells to detect the light source. The left LDR cell controls the right motor and visa versa thereby pushing the robot towards the light source.

This is a basic setup that needs some tuning



Saturday 3 August 2013

Emergency Pizza

Here's my recipe for an emergency pizza using a wrap, cheese, ham and some ketchup. If you have the nom nom's or grumbly tummy give it a try