So I’ve been looking quite a lot into minimum cost robotics as of late and have been searching for the best drive methods. I’ve been looking for a slow high torque motor and the standard for that generally lies with stepper motors. Having searched around on eBay and Aliexpress for the cheapest stepper motors, I […]
Today, my PCBs arrived, wahoo! Therefore I’ve been able to have a quick go at making my neon clock. I tested it in parts to make sure each section worked before putting it completely together. Unfortunately, my high voltage PNP transistors haven’t arrived yet so I’m currently testing it with TO92 transistors in their place. Testing […]
Building a clock really is about as textbook as it gets when it comes to electronics projects – especially on the internet. I however have never build a clock (not intentionally anyway… I wouldn’t count the measily effort of my smartwatch!) so I’ve decided to have a go at one. Instead of doing one of […]
The other day, I reached 100k views! Thank you all for your visits and comments and keep on doing! 🙂
Sadly, my summer is coming to its end so I’ve been taking my trikes out for as many drives as possible to get the last few miles out before I return to Nottingham. I’ve decided to take a video of me driving around my estate – for your pleasure, of course! Yeh, I look like […]
Drives galore! I’ve had quite a few drives round my estate both on and off road – super legal… of course, all private land… yada yada yada. I’ve done a small video showing parts of the trike and my gran filmed me driving around in the bottom of our close. Battery life and performance […]
Having completed the frame, I need to design a handheld controller, suitable for controlling the trike. I’ve decided to use an Xbox style joystick as these are easily available and the Adafruit Eagle library already had them, saving me redesigning the package! I intend to make myself a dual motor controller on a single board […]
Summer is here… or it has been for the last few weeks, I however haven’t been free as I’ve been working for the university. Now that I do have time however, I’ve decided to take upon myself a new electric vehicle – that is actually usable compared to my skates. I’ve made lots of trike […]
A couple of weeks back, I posted about designing a pair of smart glasses. Now that university has finished for the year (results tomorrow!), I’ve had a lot more time to work on my glasses – though I started employment on Monday so I’m not completely free. I have however been developing both an app […]
Capacitive touch is “rad”. By utilizing one of the simplest physical characteristics of an object – charge storage, one is able to measure the presence of a grounded object including touch and pressure. There are a couple of capacitive touch libraries that I’ve seen around but many require dedicated hardware, for example the TSC peripheral […]
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