Taggart Makes

High-entropy shed science

Physics, maths, electronics, computers, experiments, graphs, mess, and dubious contraptions from a chaotic shed-lab.

Inside the shed

Scribble. Escalate. Build. Tweak. Success optional.

Experiments

Physics, signals and ordinary questions tested with increasingly specific equipment.

Instruments

Home-made gear built when the available instrument isn't quite the point.

Data made visible

Graphs, plots, traces, and numbers that actually mean something.

Pick your route

Read it, try it, or borrow the useful bit

More than the video

However far your curiosity got

Come for the written story, have a go with ordinary things, or head straight for the exact circuit because one small part of this increasingly unreasonable build solves your problem.

Read the story

Episode pages add a little more than fits in the video: the setup, the awkward turn and what happened when I finally switched it on.

Try a smaller version

Every episode has something you can try without first acquiring the shed, the rack case or a suspicious quantity of aluminium.

Borrow the useful bit

Need the code, exact chip, circuit, settings or printable part? The Data Bank keeps those together so you can copy the bit you came for.