Flagship Project: Building A Boat

This was a long and tough project - I built my own boat - The Snow Pea - starting completely from scratch, with no experience of boatbuilding

Other Projects I Have In Mind To Tackle:

I want to make a machine that paints pictures - either a big paint plotter, or something that works as (some kind of) robotic analogue of the human arm.

Wind turbine - I want to see if it can be done on next to no budget.

Parabolic mirror array (or some kind of mirror suitable for solar experiments, including cooking)

Rudder autopilot for the boat - I think I actually have all the parts for this; I've got microcontrollers, servo motors, an electronic compass module...

Something that makes use of the glue lamination techniques I learned when I made the boat - maybe a rocking chair, maybe a sledge... I don't know, but something curvy.

A MAME arcade cabinet

Something that makes use of wooden gears

Some kind of musical automaton

A Backpack Tubulum - that is, a musical instrument as used by The Blue man Group - one of these:

An underwater webcam, or maybe a remote-controlled underwater vehicle, with a camera built in.

A lobster/crab pot - how hard can it be? (Getting it out into the water might be more of a challenge though).

Lost Wax Casting - this is where you make a model from wax, embed it in clay, fire it (during which process the wax melts out), then pour molten metal into the void left by the escaped wax.

Paper making - using a variety of different fibre sources.