This is a project to try to make a small working model Stirling engine - designed to run off a small heat source such as a candle or cup of hot water.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Making A Stirling Engine
By Mike on Sunday, November 11, 2012, 22:49
Sunday, November 11, 2012
By Mike on Sunday, November 11, 2012, 22:49
This is a project to try to make a small working model Stirling engine - designed to run off a small heat source such as a candle or cup of hot water.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
By Mike on Sunday, August 26, 2012, 19:34
I have some friends who don't eat pork and they happened to mention one day that the one thing they really miss, since they gave it up, is a pork pie.
This seemed to me more of a challenge than an obstacle, so I set about trying to recreate something equivalent to the Pork Pie Experience, but without any pork or pig products - indeed without any products of mammalian origin at all.
Friday, August 3, 2012
By Mike on Friday, August 3, 2012, 21:05
I like doing things just a little bit wrong on purpose - this time, I thought it might be interesting to try making bread using the wrong kind of yeast - beer yeast.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
By Mike on Sunday, July 8, 2012, 21:20
I love custard. Egg custard is great, but I also like conflour-based custard - especially the skin that forms on top when it cools.
But there's never enough skin - so I set about trying to make more.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
By Mike on Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 22:37
Up until some time in the 1980s, there was a confectionery bar made by Rowntree Mackintosh, called 'Nutty'. Sadly, it's just a memory now - discontinued before Rowntree became part of Nestlé.
It was my sister's favourite - and she often reminisces about it. Well, I thought it was time to try to bring it back - so here's my attempt to reverse-engineer it.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
By Mike on Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 20:57
December 2011 - Royal Mail has quite a lot to say about the maximum sizes and weights of items to be posted, but surprisingly little about the minimums.
This is a little project to try to discover just how small an item can be successfully posted.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
By Mike on Saturday, August 27, 2011, 22:26
My attempt to home-grow cereal crops on a small scale (Project Wholegrain) is not going altogether as well as I had hoped, so I've supplemented my meagre harvest by going out gleaning.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
By Mike on Saturday, August 13, 2011, 21:22
Most vegetable crops that are grown commercially are also popular with small scale home gardeners, however, this doesn't seem to be the case for cereal crops. So this year - 2011 - I'm going to give it a try - growing grain on a very small scale
Sunday, July 31, 2011
By Mike on Sunday, July 31, 2011, 22:48
Many of my past projects have thumbed their noses at convention or have been absurd, foolhardy or otherwise non-conformist, but this one extends the boundaries further than ever.
I'm going to try to make a boat by recycling plastic bottles.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
By Mike on Thursday, June 16, 2011, 20:08
Spurred on by the resounding success of my project to mould a replacement kitchen knife handle from recycled HDPE, I thought it might be worth a little experimentation, to try to get a measure of the potential for small-scale, amateur remoulding of this material.
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