Author: John
TARDIS build – Trim Installed
I managed to get the corner trim and the police sign edge installed on my TARDIS
Read More »TARDIS build – Walls Up
I managed to get the TARDIS walls up today and I got a first coat of paint on. The walls are an inner layer of 9mm plywood with an outer layer of 7mm. I’d use the word laminate,…
Read More »TARDIS build – Roof Light
I’m being pretty flesible with some of the build of my TARDIS – It’s primarily a shed to store beekeeping gear and it is some 50 metres from the road, so the public shouldn’t be getting up close…
Read More »Giant Kiwi Finished
I’ve finished mowing my kiwi in the paddock. It was marked out with survey grade GPS precision. It’s now just a matter of waiting for google earth to update their imagery.
Read More »TARDIS build – Roof
I spent the whole day working on my TARDIS today and managed to get the roof completed. I was a little flexible with some of the dimensions so I could use 50mm thick timber for the step and…
Read More »TARDIS build – Framing
I’ve put my four posts in the ground – it was really difficult to get them exactly square, but was worth doing properly.
Read More »TARDIS build – The Plan
I’ve been thinking about building a TARDIS for a while and decided to actually do it over the christmas break. The plan is to use it to store beekeeping gear. I found a sketchup 3D model online which…
Read More »Giant Kiwi – Doing it with GPS
Many, many years ago I marked out a giant Kiwi using tape measures and grids. Now, thanks to my newly built RTK GPS base station, I decided to try it with GPS. I first had to get my…
Read More »New RTK GPS Base station
I’ve been running an RTK GPS Base station and feeding the data to rtk2go.com since early 2018. I was initially using a UBlox Neo-M8T which only worked on L1 frequencies, but earlier this year I upgraded it to…
Read More »U-Blox LEA-6H Precision
This is one of the many tests I’m doing to compare GPS/GNSS receivers. I’ve had this u-box LEA-6H unit for about five years. It was the GPS that came with the 3D Robotics ArduPilot that I’ve been using…
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