This is my newest racing teapot, which will hopefully first be raced in 2024 at the Portmeirion Steampunk event. This is the third year we have recreationally built racing teapots for the Portmeirion event. The first year, we made a rather large single racing teapot, which was just a bit too cumbersome for the course….
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Our A-Team Tamiya Lunchbox
So, sometime many months ago, we purchased a Tamiya Lunchbox. It’s primarily for Jacob, because he’s ‘not so much’ into the flying, robotics or teapot racing, as we are. I wanted him to have something fun, fast and durable to mess about with in remote parts of North Wales. The Tamiya Lunchbox is an RC…
Beachlab 2023 – Aberystwyth
It was Beachlab in Aberystwyth again recently, and we were extremely pleased to be invited back to show our robotics offerings among some really incredible roboticists. We first attended Beachlab:relocated in 2021 under a very strict, ticketed control system, because of Covid-19 (and rightly so). We were then invited back for 2022, but we could…
Restoration of My Mental Health
Not very long ago, I wrote a couple of long entries on this website talking about my mental health (HERE), and (HERE). I wrote about how I had lost a lot of independence and resilience, due to the ever-increasing descent into the void that is being ill. How needing to use a wheelchair in such…
Rebuilding The DJI Inspire – Again
Firstly all of the major bolts are made of chocolate it seems, and they melted as soon as I threatened them with an Allen Key. I struggled for ages with stud removers, but I eventually resorted to drilling out the one super stubborn bolt in question and I managed to remove the servo.
40°C in December Snow
It seems recently that I spend most of my time writing about my health, and today is no different. This sort of stuff can be a regular occurance, but I never really talk about it. I’m often trying to maintain the pretence that I’m just getting on with life like everyone else, when in fact,…
Anxiety & Mental Health – Zero Resilience
I need to write this for me. I am hoping that I will be able to get through a lot of the other blogs I have lined up to write, and quickly, so that this one will be buried underneath them all and I can move on. I’m struggling to write it to be honest, but I think it needs to be done
Robot Therapy – Summer Reading Challenge
Then I remember. I’m going to have to ask if someone will pass me those parts, and can someone fetch me this tool, and I know I know; it’s all moan, moan, moan; be thankful etc, and I am. I’m just frustrated. My life has led me to a point where my mind is still lit up like a firework show, but my body just will not comply. I’m exhausted, reliant, and I feel needy. What I really want to do is spring into action, and enact all of my crazy late night, neuron fired firework party ideas, into real, tangible, robotic genesis.
Filming & Interviews – Blyth Tall Ship
Recently we were lucky to find ourselves in a position where we were not only able to film the Blyth Tall Ship in port at Holyhead, but we were able to go on board (well Cerys did), and even interview one of the Skippers on camera. It all started when a friend of ours noticed…
SEAS Sailability
So if you view my YouTube channel, it won’t come as any surprise at all that I have been spending a bit of time out on the water here in North Wales recently; which is something I have been longing to do for so many years. I have rarely been out on the water in…