Author Archives: techcobweb

Flap Jack (very sweet)

Posted on October 7, 2012

Warning ~ this is VERY sweet but a deeelicious treat, makes a tin full. Especially good for school lunch boxes. Credits for this recipe go to Liz over at Greenparent …copied here in case that link breaks, so I can … Continue reading →

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Playing with OpenSCAD

Posted on October 3, 2012

Thought I’d start playing at designing a CNC router, search around for tools to use for modeling. Google Sketchup (Windows/Mac only, so not great for me), Inkscape (2D only) and then I discovered Openscad. OpenScad is a great toy, and … Continue reading →

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Animated Skull

Posted on February 8, 2012

Inspired by all this skeleton building, when a servo arrived in the post, a friend and I couldn’t resist bolting it to the cardboard skull, from skeleton #1. Then when I acquired a broken angle-poise table lamp I saw great … Continue reading →

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Slow Cooked Rice Pudding

Posted on February 7, 2012

Another family favorite. 40g Butter 150g Pudding Rice 150g Sugar 1.5 litres milk Butter the inside of the slow cooker pot. Add ingredients. Stir. Cover and cook for 3-4 hours.

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Oat cookies

Posted on February 6, 2012

Very quick and easy. 20 mins all-in. Makes 15-20. Recipe follows after the break…

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Chocolate Cookies

Posted on January 11, 2012

So after the best part of a year of saying I’d share it… here is our family cookie recipe…

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Skeleton #2 : Taschen

Posted on January 1, 2012

My second skeleton kit is called “Build Your Own Human Skeleton: Das menschliche Skelett zum Selberbauen (Taschen Specials)”. Taschen is the publisher I believe.

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Changing file extensions of files on linux

Posted on January 1, 2012

A line of shell-script helps me change all my image files from having an upper-case file extension to one which WordPress recognises: for old in *.JPG; do mv $old `basename $old .JPG`.jpg; done

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Skeleton #1 – Osborne

Posted on December 20, 2011

When our daughter said she had to learn about bones for her school science quiz team, I thought it would be a great opportunity to build ourselves a life-sized human skeleton. I found two on the inter-web, and thought I’d get … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi sticker arrives

Posted on November 28, 2011

To help the Raspberry Pi project with ironing out any issues with their ordering process, I ordered a sticker from their web-shop. It arrived today. Huraah ! Dutifully installed on my laptop case.

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