Concept Shed

National Maritime Museum

conceptshed — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:25:46 +0000

We are looking forward to working with the National Maritime Museum Cornwall again on their forthcoming Search & Rescue exhibition.

The Flying Reiver

conceptshed — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:11:59 +0000

We have installed the world’s first coin-operated museum wayfinding system at Tullie House in Carlisle using our new wireless coin mechanisms – all to control ‘The Flying Reiver’ a life size automata suspending in the entrance atrium, designed by Keith Newstead and ourselves. See more here>

Building the Flying Reiver

conceptshed — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:35:21 +0000

The Flying Reiver first get on his bike

The plaster mould cast from a clay model to make the three hoodies statue.

The Flying Reiver Roman bowl actually made from Tupperware

The Flying Reiver hoist being attached to the atrium roof

The Flying Reiver about to be hoisted into the atrium

Carbon House II

conceptshed — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:58:09 +0000

Carbon House II, our new compact version of the original portable Carbon House interactive is out and available to order now. We are currently building the first batch of orders for September.

Marriage Live On Air

conceptshed — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:15:53 +0000

702 Talk Radio South Africa presenters Leigh and Ray just got hitched live on air by our AutoWed wedding machine witnessed by 400,000 listeners – and here are the happy couple:

702 Talk Radio South Africa Leigh & Ray get married by AutoWed

Most Read Story on BBC

conceptshed — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:13:52 +0000

AutoWed made the BBC News homepage today and became the number one most read story of the day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-14003233

AutoWed Features on BBC Radio 4 Your & Yours

conceptshed — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:01:10 +0000

AutoWed featured on the BBC Radio 4 Your & Yours programme today in a discussion about no-frills wedding. Listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124qth

AutoWed Video

conceptshed — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:36:21 +0000

At last the long awaited AutoWed video.

Thanks to Alan, Rosie for getting married and vproject.co.uk for filming it.

The AutoWed Build

conceptshed — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:10:56 +0000

Here are some photos from the design and build of our first AutoWed wedding machine. It’s over 8 feet high, took 3 months to develop, has more than 300 bespoke parts and over 1,500 lines of code in it.

The first full sized sketch of AutoWed

Creating the front panel

Polishing the water jet cut aluminium speaker covers.

The AutoWed Retro Keyboard

conceptshed — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:48:38 +0000

We wanted to make an amazing metal keyboard for the AutoWed machine that had the right retro steampunk look and feel, so we designed a metal faceplate with circular keys turned from aluminium with a recess for laser engraved white laminate legends. Each key has a flat on the end to prevent it rotating and a spring. The business end of the keys then push against regular computer keyboard keys. The USB/PS2 keyboard then interfaces with our Ardunio system using a PS2 library.

Fitting the keyboard into the panel

Polishing the aluminium keyboard faceplate

The finished keyboard