January 2009

Another successful laser harp build

January 28, 2009

Nicolas has been working diligently on getting his version of the laser running. I’m pleased to say that he’s succeeded – well done! (It looks so much neater than mine!)

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Alien Robotic Death Machines…

January 25, 2009

Just got the Dalek dome reassembled before the weekend runs out. It’s a royal pain in the butt to put everything together and takes at least two people to do it. Uses C#, Xbee, Arduino, and Sabertooth motor controller.

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Who is that guy in the header, is it you…?

January 22, 2009

Someone emailed me to ask if that picture in the header is me… It’s actually this guy: He’s a character called Jesse, and every week on The Fast Show he would report on what he’d been eating (Jesse’s Diets), or later on, what he’d been wearing (Jesse’s Fashion Tips). …and yes, that is the actor [...]

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Rotation Encoders…

January 20, 2009

…using magnets. I ordered 2-3 of these the other day. I thought that they might come in handy for the Dalek. Essentially the chip can tell the orientation of a magnetic field placed underneath it (ie. a magnet). So add a motor, arduino and motor controller, and hey presto – one seriously powerful continuous rotation [...]

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Sanguino!

January 20, 2009

As if the Arduino and all it’s clones weren’t enough I recently received a ‘Sanguino’ - based around the larger ATMega644P processor. It took a little longer than expected to assemble, for some reason the solder did not want to flow onto the pads on the reverse side of the board. For a while I [...]

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Verify your website against a bazillion different browsers…

January 16, 2009

OK well not quite… But this is a really neat site – http://browsershots.org It lets you see how any given URL looks on many different browser platforms. This is invaluable when you are trying a new site layout (like me)…

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2009, time to update a few things…

January 15, 2009

I’ve been meaning to update my blog for a long time now. The old theme was getting a bit tired, and this new corporate theme looked nice and clean. I need to make a few tweaks here and there, but it’s not too bad at the moment. I’m currently working on putting a Dalek together [...]

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