I took a few photos of the garage last night.  All the photos below are clickable to a larger high-res version.

The summer house side

View from the sofa

The garage side

As you can see, organising everything on the garage side is still an ongoing project, but at least everything is now undercover in a dry, warm garage.

It’s been a while since the last update, but a lot has happened in that time.   We now have power, insulation, flooring and even some guttering.

Picking up from where I was last time, the electrician came out and fitted a consumer unit to power the ring main and lighting circuits.  I read in my DIY book that “people usually fit too few sockets and regret it later”.  I don’t think I’ll have that problem, but on reflection I think I might have gone too far the other way — I’ve got 22 sockets. (more…)

I’ve recently completed a new IT exhibit for Glasgow Science Centre called The Animator.  

The exhibit allows visitors to create their own Wallace & Gromit style stop-motion animations using a built-in camera and a simple touch-screen interface.  

The key with this one was absolute simplicity.  All commercial stop-motion applications have tons of features that most people will never use, and have interfaces that take a while to learn.  By contrast, The Animator was designed so that people could learn to use it in seconds, then go on to create an impressive looping animation in just a couple of minutes.

Keep a look out for it on your next visit to GSC.