Well, starting with the updates first! As some of you may know, I’m at university, well through the first few weeks now. All seems well so far! None the less, university work renders me less able to post as often as I’d like to, or at least until the load relaxes a little (never i […]
Tomorrow, one of the most defining moments of my life as an electronic product designer/inventor, after much liasing with the brilliant Michael Thompson, should arrive phobass protobody mark II with custom pick guard. For probably the first time in phobass history, all required parts to build a 100% functional and aesthetically pleasing product will be […]
Thank you all for looking at my blog! It means a lot that people out there are actually interested in the stuff I write about. Keep tuned and hopefully, I’ll be able to keep you all entertained with my posts!
A few weeks/months back, I bought a cheapo development board from China off WayEngineer (http://goo.gl/wFdZM7) and never really posted much about it! I feel that I should’ve because its a really cool board for the price of it. I pair about £25 or so and it comes with so many features, mentioned in the previous […]
Well! Its been a long time since I’ve actually blogged as I’ve been so busy! I’m now back at university (with 25 hours of contact time/week), along with vice president’ing UoN ShockSoc (https://twitter.com/Shock_Soc) and being the general secretary of BladeSoc (https://twitter.com/UoNBladeSoc), leaves little time for me to do much else! I have however been asked […]
As ever, the massive wealth of information on the internet and a bit of ingenuity of mine has lead to some improvements to my test application! Not only are all sentences sent from the module, received and stored in their corresponding buffers, I’ve written a few functions to parse some of the useful sentenced, to […]
Well! On another of my eBay whims, I decided to get a GPS receiver module. They’re normally relatively cheap (<£10 from the far lands! http://goo.gl/DGdbl0 – Link will expire!) and are surprisingly easy to use. I’d found a fair few Arduino versions but couldn’t really find anything on how they’re interfaced. My module literally has 4 […]
Well today has been productive! Here, I’m using my cheapo MAX7219 LED screen (cheaply available off my favourite website eBay: http://goo.gl/NBURFm, link will expire!) to create a scrolling text effect! The font used is from my standard graphics library, originally from the Adafruit graphics library. I’ve modified the text size from 5×8 to 6×8 in the […]
In addition to my previous post about the ADXL335 accelerometer, I’ve now added some basic calibration! The datasheet for the ADXL335 (http://goo.gl/LAslK) does actually state the voltages that the accelerometer should produce with respect to the actual level of acceleration though as some may know, the value of gravity varies dependent on where about you […]
Its been a fair bit of time since I last posted, mostly attributed to the fact that I’m no longer living down south and have moved home for the next two weeks until I return to university! None the less, after re-arranging my room at home to my liking (my family have the obsession of […]
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