daniel bates

From a long standing desire to build an amp rack 10U of rack space, lockable castors, open backed. Douglas Fir side panels with cut out carry handles, 12mm WBP ply on top and bottom. Coated in boiled linseed which hardens reasonably well over time.   This is in situ at Boudica's Bar , and yes, that is a toilet in the background.. I'm available to make this or a similar item to requirements.

Research done into Passivhaus Refurbishment during my final year of studies (and beyond) has now been published! The book is intended as a guide to the buildability of Passivhaus. It's full of images of build processes and useful information taken directly from interviews with contractors involved in Passivhaus refurbishment projects. Copies can be bought from Morebooks .

This is a project I'm working on for the development of a new kitchen and storage space as part of the developing business Menter Pandy, North Wales. Following the construction of a reciprocal framed roof building five years ago, there's been a decision to create a theme according to the design and build another one. Here's the original building which I only helped with a little:   The original design (not done by myself!) unfortunately proved to be very unsafe. The lateral forces of the roof timbers were so great they slowly slid down the supporting posts and also pushed them outwards, such that the walls were no longer upright. Remedial works involving the construction of new posts inward from the originals, tensioning wires fixed at the base of each of the five roof beams (taking the lateral force in an interesting pentagram shape), and fixing bolts tying the roof beams to the wall plates proved effective in fixing the problems. Back

So about this detail. What I wanted was an interactive setup of some kind. Proximity sensing seemed like a cool idea. Ultrasonic proximity sensing is cheap, effective and simple to set up. The visualisation changing as someone approached the exhibition seemed to make sense. The flow of information eventually could be described like this: The proximity sensor was a Maxbotix LV-EZ0 which is described here . It was incredibly simple to solder and connect to the Arduino and comes in a variety of field angles i.e. narrow beam or wide beam. The Arduino sketch I used can be downloaded from here . It's a default one from the Max6 tutorial files except modified for a low baud rate (less CPU processing). Vizzie is a component of Max (version 5.1.7 or later) that is all about video control and effects. The same download above includes the Max6 patch which uses Vizzie objects. It used a simple serial read function to cross-fade between two videos. The mathematical function I us

Thought I'd share the canopy I designed to go over my final year project boards. I used Rhino/Grasshopper to parametrically divide a face into a skewed grid, each skewed square then divided into triangles which are themselves offset inwards. The outer and inner offset curves created space for the holes and left space for the material of the ply. I judges the amount of offset intuiting the amount to cut out without making the piece too weak. The design was originally in three parts due to the size limitations of the university CNC machine. The machine broke the week before the exhibition! Therefore I outsourced. Thankfully, Gee Cee Joinery (http://www.geeceejoinery.co.uk/) helped me out at a reasonable price, and within a day I had a perfectly CNC cut piece of ply. I'm sure you'll agree, the effect is quite pleasing aesthetically. The presentation boards themselves will soon be on my design portfolio . The projector showed a video slide show contro