Garden tool shed from recycled materials

Here is a tool shed I made for my mother inlaw.

I made the shed totally from recycling, apart form the padlock, scavenging wood from pallets and old fence panels and hardware from my junk drawers.

Coffee Creamer Fireballs

Heres a tutorial video on how to make fireballs with coffee creamer.

Coffee creamer contains sodium aluminosilicate, an ingredient added to keep powdered creamer from caking together. It can become flammable When mixed with oxygen and ignited produces some nice sized fireballs.

Heres How to make them

Model Volcano For Science Project

Here is my quick video tutorial for making a model volcano that I made with my son for his science project. Its really simple and can be made with items around the home.

Materials:
cardboard
paper
small plastic bottle
yogurt pot
masking tape
PVA glue
water
grey, green, brown, orange and red poster paints

Tools:
scissors
paintbrushes

Installing Canon Printer Drivers on Ubuntu

It took me a while to find out how to do this so i thought i would share the information.

I recently bought a Canon MG3200 all in one printer and wanted to install the printing element of the device onto my wife 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It should work on newer versions of Ubuntu as well.

I had a poke around on the internet and found the following information

open command window and run the following commands agreeing to everything it asks, It may ask for the administrators password.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-stable
Then

sudo apt-get update

And finally the following command to add install the printer. you need to
replace the printer name you are installing with the one you own.

sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-mg3200series

The above command will install the driver for an mg3200 printer if you had an ip4900 you would execute the following command.

sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-ip4900series 

This should now plug and play the printer driver when you connect it.

This doesn't work for all the canon printers but hopefully yours is one of the supported ones,

Hope this helps
Good Luck

WWI Trench project

Here is a short set of photographs of  a weekend project my son and myself undertook. His brief was to produce a model of a section of a WWI trench.

All the item are made from things we found around the house and painted using Games workshop paints.

Steampunk projects 2009 to 2012

Here are a few Steampunk projects that I have been pottering with over the last few years. Its getting to the middle of winter now so time to get on with a few more.

Derby Mini Maker Faire 2013

Here are some short snippets of video i shot at the Derby Mini Maker Faire 23rd November 2013

It was different to last years event. The building was newly refurbished and looked in cracking condition. Lots more stalls and an abundance or Raspberry Pi to be had for all the RP fans.

Given me inspiration to go to the main maker faire in Derby next year.