Enchanted Cottage – Proposal
My plan for the Element14 Enchanted Objects Design Challenge is to take an old fashioned weather house and retrofit it with electronics The post Enchanted Cottage – Proposal appeared first on...
View ArticleWorking with 3mm hardwood plywood
For the Enchanted Cottage project I wanted to add a structure to hide all the mechanics and electronics. Because the weather house was made from 3mm plywood, I thought it made sense to make the rest...
View Article3D printing small details
For the Enchanted Cottage project I decided to make the mechanism for moving the figures using a 3D printer. I thought that ABS plastic would be a good material as the parts would be light weight and...
View Article3D printing which way up?
For the Enchanted Cottage project I wanted some spacers for between the Arduino Yún and the shields so that it would be securely mounted on the chassis. There’s not a lot of space so I designed some in...
View ArticleEnchanted Cottage – An upgraded Weather House
Today was the final day for any submissions to the Enchanted Objects Design Challenge. As well as completing our projects we were tasked with blogging about the challenge on the community website,...
View ArticleOther Interesting Weather Projects
I’d not actually done much research into if anyone else had already done built a weather house similar to the Enchanted Cottage project. Following the project I had a check and it turned out that there...
View ArticleWorkshopshed is going to New York Makers Faire
I’m happy to announce that my project was selected by the judges from Atmel and Element14 to be the winner of the Enchanted Objects Design Contest. The judges were impressed by the content you produced...
View ArticleEnchanted Cottage in the news
The Enchanted Cottage has been getting some press this week. Following the announcement on Element14 there’s been an official press release about the competition. Also several magazines have run with...
View ArticleEnchanted Cottage Revisited
The Enchanted Cottage is having a bit of a revisit this month, it was entered in the Proto-Pic Twitter IoT competition and won a £20 gift token. It’s also being showcased a the London Arduino meetup...
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