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LIVE · FIG.01 — CAR · OBSERVATORY · ELECTRONICS — all featured in this website
Welcome to my website! I have no idea how you got here, but now you have — take a minute and have a look around. Car. Observatory. Meadow. Electronics.
Featured projects
On this website you can find lots of odd and potentially interesting articles and projects. Four are highlighted below, but do keep exploring to find others!
F-Type Seats — Extra Adjustment
Adding real extra adjustment to the basic F-Type seats — and making a repair to a damaged side bolster along the way.
▸ READ THE BUILD
Fake Engine Sound — Taming the NGPT
That famous exhaust note is partly played through the cabin speakers. Where it comes from, and how I tamed it.
▸ READ THE BUILD
Meade LX200 Dew Heater Ring
Meade never made a dew heater ring for their SCT telescopes — so I built one. The parts, the wiring and the result.
▸ READ THE BUILD
Particle Detector — Cosmic Rays at Home
Building a cloud chamber from household parts — and catching real cosmic-ray particles, including muons.
▸ READ THE BUILD- solar_capture.exe RUNNING
- cosmic_ray_log.dat 12 TRACES
- engine_sound.wav PAUSED
- meadow_notes.txt SAVING…
Choose your section
A treasure trove of interesting articles and projects. Pick a doorway — every one of these goes deeper than it looks. Start small and enjoy the learning.
Astronomy
Solar & planetary imaging from a home observatory, deep-sky expeditions, and the gear that makes it all work.
▸ ENTERTechnology
A cloud chamber particle detector caught real cosmic rays — plus other electronic projects and websites.
▸ ENTERCars
Living with a Jaguar F-Type P450 — home tuning, seats, OBD data, exhaust and fake-engine-sound experiments.
▸ ENTERField
An acre of wild flower meadow (and some apple trees) next door, documented as the seasons happen.
▸ ENTER
WHO'S BEHIND THE SITE
I'm Steve Chambers, retired and living on the outskirts of Norwich. Astronomy started in the late '90s with a home-built Dobsonian; these days it's solar and planetary imaging. In between I tinker with a Jaguar F-Type, a particle detector, and a wild flower meadow. Old-fashioned websites are a great place to find and leave ideas — this one is mine.
Like it's 1999
No trackers-for-hire, no cookie wall. Just a person, a meadow, a telescope and a very opinionated car.
EST 1999
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1999
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