MSRaynsford

The rebuild has to start somewhere and these seemed like simple parts to get built while waiting for other parts to arrive. To make the box easy to develop, I originally decided that the four side panels should be removable. The basic framework of the box then becomes a rotating base platform with four corner columns to hold the walls in place. These are the basic columns for each corner of the box. In theory I could have made them from solid material, but this framework style allowed me to house things inside the corners. The framework has a little bit of flexible twist at this stage, but it really firms up when the front and side facias are added. At the top and bottom of each column is a dual captive nut arrangement, by sandwiching a nut between several pieces of material I can bolt up directly through the base plate. Two nuts prevent from the column from rotating round on the base plate. These blocks have tabs to connect to the vertical materials, ensuring a nice strong joint. The ...

It is my intention to cover the whole depth of the coding that went into the NikolAI puzzle box  and I really didn't want to start with the 'Blink LED' project because everybody does that and it's been done a million times over but it's just too darn useful. I'm not going to cover setting up Arduino because even I've done that tutorial before. PinMode(2, OUTPUT); set up digital line 2 as an output to turn the LED on/off DigitalWrite(2, HIGH/LOW); actually turns the digital line 2 on/off, blinking an LED Delay(1000); creates a time delay of 1000 milliseconds between turning the line on/off So there it is, the simplest blink LED program. This can be found all over the internet and it does the job of blinking an LED and that's about it. There's actually a few issues with this as a program and you'd never use it in sensible program so I thought it would actually be much more useful for me to describe what's wrong with this example and lay ...

Last summer, I had the privilege of creating a puzzle box for Chris Ramsay , the Canadian Magician and Youtube Puzzler (Not the English comedian Chris Ramsey ). Like most projects of this nature I failed to take enough photos, I rushed to complete it in a good time and I didn't even write about it here. Thanks to some very keen collectors, I have an opportunity to rebuild the box this summer. This time around I am going to write about it, documenting the design choices and code that goes into such a creation. I've even found time to list it on my puzzle website should anyone be interesting in purchasing their own copy.  https://www.donteatpuzzles.com/nikolai The project was delivered in July 2024 and was filmed almost immediately by Chris and his team. I think it's fair to say that he loved it. Seeing all of my efforts being appreciated in this was is rather magical. I should just take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported me in making this, whether it was playte...