Aren’t I punny? No! After the other days disaster of finding out my main section of steel was too large to encompass the hub motor shaft, I set out looking for some suitable steel. I originally decided on using 20x10mm box section but after a bit of research, it turns out that I could only really find it […]
I initially started the build a couple of days ago but after realising my inability to drill straight, I decided to invest in a drill press attachment for my hand drill. While its cheap and a touch flimsy, it’s worked up to now and has really helped with alignment of my holes, especially through parallel […]
Originally posted on Kim Skates:
So after the burst of skating confidence during the jumping skating session (my last post!), my friend and I decided it would be a great idea to try to skate down some steps. We had seen it done by a lot of the advanced skaters at BladeSoc sessions and we had watched…
Goodluckbuy, about the corniest sounding website ever? Nope! It is instead, another Aliexpress-esque market place where you can purchase cool gadgets from. My first purchase off their however was a relatively pricey one ~£70 and consisted of an attachable eye display in an all in one package! Since the inception of Google Glass, I’ve thought of […]
Work is over, I’ve had my summer holiday – holiday and I’m now home! Having unpacked literally a shed load of packages… Bulk buying…? …I eventually opened each and everyone (this is literally my equivalent of Christmas!), obviously most excited at the prospect of the hub motors, controllers and steel. As I’d posted my “plans” […]
Well! I’m now coming towards the end of my work placement at Imagination Technologies (next Thursday to be exact…) and having accumulated a pair of pay-checks, I’ve spent some of my spoils! What on you ask? As ever, Aliexpress. I’ve devised a new project that will combine my useless need for electromechanical transport, along with […]
Well! It turns out I’m coming to the end of my work placement (booo!) but boy have I learnt a lot. A lot of my work consisted of writing VHDL, along with testing its functionality in a simulation environment. I’ve learnt about text file parsing, different methods of structuring your VHDL code, along with good […]
Well, its been an extremely long time since I wrote a blog post and sadly this one is a short one too! 😦 Over the summer, I’ve been working at Imagination Technologies again and going from a lazy student to full time work really takes it out of you. I will however resume my blog […]
I’ve been reading up as much VHDL as possible these last few days as I’ve recently found out that the majority of my summer is going to consist of writing it! After seeing loads of implementations for HD44780 16×2 character based LCDs, I couldn’t find any examples for the easy to get LCDs (by easy, […]
With work looming over me (starting tomorrow infact…) I’ve decided to further progress my C implementation of the HMCU. As a bit of a challenge with strings, I decided to build myself a compiler. While its fun writing instructions in Excel, its a bit of a pain because you have to know your powers of […]
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