Stuff What I Made

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]

As a cash strapped electric guitar playing teenager, one of my hobbies was making effects pedals. Many of them were made from plans in those cheap paperbacks that you could buy in the high street electronics shop Maplin. In the age of buying almost everything online, it seems almost absurd... [Read More]