This is basically a transcript of the text from my new talking vlog:  Today I'm going to try something a little bit different. I'm not working on a project - actually I'm working on about 10 projects simultaneously as you know and I never get any finished, but I'm just going to talk at you. Now I used to do this in the beginning of this channel when it was called Keef Talks and it was like semi-scripted and actually pretty hard work. But this is pretty much unscripted - I've just got a list of topics and I'm going to tell you about things that have been going on in the last week so it hopefully could be a weekly thing if I can squeeze it into my skedoolie. I was going to shoot this yesterday, Sunday afternoon, but the sun came out and so did all the kids and they've been sort of locked away for quite a while so it was like a little cluster bomb exploded - all these small earthlings playing football and screaming and shouting and having a great time. So Mr G...

For about the last year I've been using my B-camera on a camera slider and the connection between the two was a 'Z' mount. It was OK, but had a severely limited range of motion, and in the last few months the friction bolts that hold the bits in place have become less able to do their job. I decided to make a mounting of my own based on an old anglepoise lamp. I had begun a project with this a few years ago - I was going to make an adjustable video light using a square biscuit tin with some LED strips inside it. But for some reason that barely got started and I now have enough adjustable video lights so there's not much point in building another one. I removed the light fitting and shade from the lamp, and this reveals a circular holder to connect a new 3D printed part into. This part is basically a mash-up of an Arca-Swiss-style quick release holder and a notched disc that fits into the holder ring on the lamp. It's incredibly simple and hugely effective. The range...

 Suddenly, here we are, 2021! And what a hideous year 2020 was what with coronavirus, insane politics both sides of the Atlantic, a climate emergency and a world turned upside down. I could use all that as an excuse for seemingly abandoning Planet Keef, but that would be too easy. I was actually very busy in the shed in 2020 and started many projects. I just didn't manage to finish any of them as videos. Here's a little rundown of some of the videos that I started but haven't (yet) finished. A SMALL LED VIDEO LIGHT This was intended to be a quick and easy project using an Anglepoise desk lamp as the adjustable stand with a square biscuit tin fixed on as a reflector. My plan was to stuff 10 metres of LED strip inside this, and then cover the front of the tin with some kind of diffusing material. Unfortunately I only got as far as removing the old light and its shade from the stand. I wanted to 3D print a bracket to connect the tin to the stand, but the printer was out of act...