http://stephenhobley.com/blog Travels with a camera Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:37:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/159 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/159#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:32:14 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/159 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/159/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/157 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/157#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:54:03 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/157 It’s actually quite interesting to look at the breakout patterns up close, almost like a spirograph… ]]> http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/157/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/156 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/156#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:01:12 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/156 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/156/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/155 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/155#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:56:16 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/155 Success! I cleaned out most of the burning from the inside of the coil. Then mounted the toroid back on the secondary with a nylon bolt. I’m also pleased to report that the Tesla tuner I built was pretty much spot on with the tap point of the primary coil… ]]> http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/155/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/154 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/154#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:53:18 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/154 Well, last night I found out why our Tesla coil isn’t delivering the performance I would expect. I opened up the secondary coil and found carbon scoring on the inside of the coil. Looks like the coil has been discharging internally. We need to remove the metal bolt at the top and find a way to [...]]]> http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/154/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/153 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/153#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:12:45 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/153 We did the final assemble and checks on our Tesla coil on Saturday night, we rolled it out into the back yard and switched it on… Nothing is as scary as that first time… And… Nothing exploded, imploded, melted, smoked or fried… We were able to tease 7″ sparks out of the toroid with the safety ‘wand’. We tapped [...]]]> http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/153/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/152 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/152#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:46:41 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/152 Jennette Fulda is a fellow resident of the Stutz building. She approached me some time ago to take some pictures for a book she was writing on the incredible weight loss journey she’s been on… The thing I remember most was when the publisher sent me the contract, it was titled “Half-Assed Photography Contract” (It’s [...]]]> http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/152/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/151 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/151#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:10:25 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/151 Last year I covered a wedding at the Sanctuary in Zionsville, IN. The marketing staff got in touch recently to ask permission to use some of the images on the Sanctuary website. http://www.nanoel.com/page_detail.php?page_id=78&page_type=gallery I’m in there amongst some of the other images. It was a great venue, always nice to be able to shoot natural light at a [...]]]> http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/151/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/150 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/150#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:27:24 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/150 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/150/feed/ http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/149 http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/149#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 15:21:50 +0000 shobley http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/149 I’ve been asked to write an article for Make magazine on MIDI controllers using lasers and light. It’s come at the right time, as I’ve been meaning to try out the Sharp GP2D12 sensors I bought from Trossen Robotics. Anyone that has played a Roland synthesizer with a D-Beam controller will recognise these immediately. They [...]]]> http://stephenhobley.com/blog/archives/149/feed/