Coming Soon - May

Well writing a public list of what I was going to achieve has been at best a partial success. Like I expected I got distracted by other things, what with work, fizzPOP and Climate-KIC PIP but some progress has been made with most things from the list.  First the successes:

• As per my previous post the workshop now has a roof, the walls are rendered and I have soffits and facia's.
• The Printrbot build is now completed and I have done some test prints, although I am yet to use it in anger.

Progress has been made with the following:

• The design has pretty much been finalised on the frequency standard project and I have most of the parts ordered.
• The battery tab welder is progressing nicely, just waiting for a few parts to arrive and i can start the build.

And no progress has been made with the following

• Other than a bit of light research no progress so far on designing my lab programmable DC load.
• The OneTesla Tesla Coil kit is still sat in the box.

This months list is as follows, I have tried to be a bit more realistic with my goals:

1. Pour the workshop floor and hopefully get some doors fitted.
2. Finish designing and start assembly of my battery tab welder.
3. Finish designing and start building my lab frequency standard project.
4. Start work designing my lab programmable DC load
5. Build my OneTesla Tesla Coil kit.
6. Start designing a USB phone charger run off Makita batteries.

Hopefully I will make my way through a few more of the items than last month!

Coming soon - April

Like most makers I do sometimes struggle to not get distracted by something new and exciting to work on.  To try and keep myself focused I am going to publish a list of my current projects each month.  You can think of this as my to do list for projects in April, like all to do list I will get about half the things on the list done if I am lucky.  I will also most likely end up doing plenty of other things I had not even thought of yet. Hopefully having a list will keep me on track!  The first few of things are in order of priority after that they are just in the order I thought of them.

1. Put a roof on the workshop, the sooner I have a proper workshop again the better!
2. Build my Printrbot, 3D Printer kit.
3. Build my OneTesla Tesla Coil kit.
4. Complete my lab frequency standard project.
5. Finish designing and build my battery tab welder.
6. Start work designing my lab programmable DC load

Of course this list does not include everything going on at fizzPOP or my work projects. Lets see if publicly making a list helps me stay focused or not.