To Avonmouth and beyond / Bridgewater white death

Dartmouth, right? It is indeed Whitby with palm trees. Although since it's much further south, the tourists all seem to be wearing various flavours of Musto rather than Tog24.
The car ferry is an Anderson knock-off and the pubs warrant more investigation. There was also a bicycle race. A sweaty man in lycra won.

Stuff that fell out of the phone-camera (i)

( Thumping great image )

Robot progress picture story

Before: a pile of cheap bits.



After: assemblage of cheap bits. Arduino Uno - model's own.



Hand-assembled Adafruit motor-control board. Appears to pass the smoke-test and drive a servo.

This modern safety-solder doesn't 'wet' right, does it? I'm hoping that the rough-looking joints are JPEG artifacts.