November 2011
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May 2011
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DIY Terracotta food smoker
Using Dave Naffziger’s blog as reference, I decided to try and build my own food smoker using parts available in the UK.
His terracotta smoker (like most you’ll find on the web) was inspired by a segment of Alton Brown’s (American) Food Network programme (link).
As it turns out, all the parts are pretty easy to get hold of – with the exception of a bowl-shaped pot for the lid of the smoker....
March 2011
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January 2010
1 post
Inexpensive external portable power
Using Systm episode 57 from Revision 3 as inspiration, I wanted to build an inexpensive portable power source for my Canon A590IS. I use this point-and-shoot camera for timelapse projects as it’s one of the many Canon cameras which can run the alternate firmware CHDK. The Canon Hacker Development Kit opens up loads of cheap cameras to a whole new world of possibilities, one of them being...