Stuff What I Made

I’ve always had a passing interest in cars I suppose, but I wouldn’t really call myself a “car nut” or similar. I’m not one of those people that obsesses over all the new models and can name all the engine codes; as a general rule I’m more into the underlying... [Read More]

It will surprise no one who knows me that I was quite into computer games as a youngster. Like most of my contemporaries, I played all the embryonic FPS titles of the time, in particular the ones from id Software; Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake. Let’s not talk about how we... [Read More]

I got this bike during university, probably 2002, using my student loan (obviously, what else is it for?). It’s a Giant MCM-D 990, an eBay find (£500!) and clearly about 2 sizes too small for me, but it was quite a distinctive thing and always got lots of questions and... [Read More]

In the final year of my degree, we were required to do an individual project chosen either from a prescribed list of possibilities or optionally your own idea (staff approved). The ones I fancied on the list were taken by other students so I ended up choosing my own. At... [Read More]

I’m not really sure why, but aged 16 or so I got it into my head that I’d make an electric guitar. Somehow I ended up with the book Make Your Own Electric Guitar, by Melvyn Hiscock. I genuinely can’t remember if the book ownership or the idea came first,... [Read More]