Hello...

[Yoopta]

Hi all,

Newbie here, keen interested in carpentry and mechanical engineering, but interested in getting to understand electrical design so thought here might be a great place to start....

Have a great Xmas!

 

[Andy™]

welcome to the madhouse

 

[apprentice87]

Yes, you will learn lots here!! What sort of electrics do you want to design then?? Presumably to do with wiring up motors and stuff??

john..

 

[Yoopta]

Thanks. I hope so, it can be quite hard to jump into something like this when you need to start with the basics!

I have two projects on at the moment, the more serious is setting up a home alarm system...which I'm running away with an thinking about all sorts of home automation options now that i've been reading through some of these forum pages.

The second is more fun, and because it is for my son buys me some credit to spend more time in the workshop...but i'm looking at building a "slotting machine toy" - basically my 20month old son loves stealing my credit cards/keys/pens and anything else he can get his hands on a poking them through cracks and holes.....so I thought why not build him something that lights up, whizzes, bangs, sings, vibrates when he does so - that way I might at least be able to find my stuff when I need it! Already got the basic idea built, but now just playing with the idea of incorporating electronics with carpentry.

 

[bluetobits]

Thanks. I hope so, it can be quite hard to jump into something like this when you need to start with the basics!

I have two projects on at the moment, the more serious is setting up a home alarm system...which I'm running away with an thinking about all sorts of home automation options now that i've been reading through some of these forum pages.

The second is more fun, and because it is for my son buys me some credit to spend more time in the workshop...but i'm looking at building a "slotting machine toy" - basically my 20month old son loves stealing my credit cards/keys/pens and anything else he can get his hands on a poking them through cracks and holes.....so I thought why not build him something that lights up, whizzes, bangs, sings, vibrates when he does so - that way I might at least be able to find my stuff when I need it! Already got the basic idea built, but now just playing with the idea of incorporating electronics with carpentry.

Don't let him make a habit of that

 

[apprentice87]

You could always get your boy to stick his finger in a socket. He would whizz bang and vibrate himself then!!

john..

 

[M107]

My lad used to post slices of bread in to the video recorder.

 

[Yoopta]

Don't joke about the sockets....he's desperate to get something in there. It's like he believes its the key hole to the world's supply of toys!

 

[apprentice87]

Not sure what i would do about that......!!

john..

 

[Tony S]

My lad used to post slices of bread in to the video recorder.

Carl S’s specialty was posting LEGO bricks and bananas in to the video.