Open Source Mechanic blog

Sometime in the late 1980s or early 90s I bought a Casio SK-200 sampling music keyboard. It has been a lot of fun over the years. I’ve sampled everything from radio static to hulusi’s and harps. The sound quality isn’t brilliant, it’s only 8-bit sampling at 10 kHz, but slightly higher quality [...]

Here is a movie I took on 4 August, 2009 at approximately 8:30 p.m., only 17 days before the railway collapsed:

See if you can guess which support is the bad one.

A railway viaduct very near my home collapsed into the broadmeadows estuary. We’re very fortunate that the train which crossed only seconds before the collapse made it across safely. The underlying piers the viaduct is built upon dates back to the mid 19th century. Yesterdays tides were approximately 15 feet high, which [...]