I competed in and won the first Dyson hackathon with my team. We designed, build, tested and presented an automatic drawing machine hacked from a Dyson desk lamp using an Arduino and some open sourceContinue reading
MINI DRUM barbecue & smoker
Using Minidrum you can slow cook melt-in-your-mouth smoked meat or just have a barbecue. Minidrum is also portable, inexpensive and looks cool!
Hosting Arduino workshops
I have hosted Arduino workshops at Dyson and externally since 2012. Arduino Workshop Part 1: An overview: Aimed at Design Engineers who want to “add another tool to their box”; the Part 1 Workshop givesContinue reading
Glass coffee table
Designed and hand made glass table. Steel base, turned aluminium legs, UV bonded glass panel, made by hand from scratch.
Speaking at the Festival of Education
https://worldskillsuk.org/news-and-events/our-news/worldskills-uk-news/skills-champion-engages-teachers-at-festival-of-education Skills Champion Engages Teachers at Festival of Education Skills Champion Darren Lewis spoke at the Festival of Education to showcase his success since WorldSkills London 2011 Wednesday, 07 Sep 2016 Skills Champion Darren LewisContinue reading
Dominos pizza box flyer
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/pizza-box-plane-engineer-darren-2261971 http://www.instructables.com/id/Dominos-Pizza-Box-Airplane-35/
Large oil drum BBQ
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Oil-Drum-BBQ-Smoker/
How to build a Pizza oven
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-homemade-Pizza-Oven/
Dyson Challenge 2013: Flying
Awards won: 1st place overall Fastest to complete the course Press articles: http://careers.dyson.com/story/we_never_stop_solving_obsessive_engineering/ http://inventorspot.com/articles/dyson_engineers_make_flying_objects_their_time
AR sports glasses concept
Design the next generation of Oakley eye wear that will allow an athlete to enhance their performance. Visually track lap times and compare personal bests during training and competing. Real-time GPS, Position Tracking performance eyeContinue reading
Dyson Challenge 2012: Ball
Award won: Most ambitious design http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/blog/dyson-ball-challenge-2012
Immaterials; Wifi RSSI
This project graphically demonstrates the strength of background Wifi signals in London and Bournemouth. Images were captured using a long exposure photograph of our prototype that consisted of an Arduino, a Wifi shield & white LEDs.Continue reading
World Skills 2011
Largest skills competition ever to be held 1000 competitors From 50 countries/regions 45 different skills Over 200 000 visitors Largest event ever held in London Excel Opening & closing ceremonies hosted in the O2 Press:Continue reading
Babel Create (Kinect)
A concept for an Arduino shield which translates data from the Kinect sensor into stripped down, simplified data that can be used easily with Arduino.
Heineken beer robot
Events attended: Kinetica Art Fair 2010 Google Zeitgeist 2010 SE1 nightclub London 2010 Middlesex University Degree Show 2010 NEXT Exhibition, Aarhus Denmark 2010 Watch the video below from 29sec. Watch the video below from 4.10min
Ellie Goulding music video
Worked for Moritz Waldemeyer on the special effects for this music video. (Assembling the Olympus semi-circle structure + electronics assembly). http://www.waldemeyer.com/ellie-goulding-lights-music-video
Eurobot 2009 2010 2011
Eurobot 2011: Chess-up Awarded with lowest cost robot Eurobot 2010: Feed the World Awarded with 8th place in the world Eurobot 2009: Temples of Atlantis Awarded with 22nd place