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ABE
In the beginning (of 2012), there was ABE…Earlier this year, I brought to life a small, cutish robotic creation called ABE. ABE stands for Autonomous Base Explorer (or something like that). It’s a...
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The Burn & Go
(From brainspace to prototype in a couple of hours…)What is it?The Burn & Go is a semi-shield for Arduino. It acts as a zero-insertion-force pass-through adapter for the 28-pin Atmel chip.What does...
View ArticleDamned Discounts
Damn. Whenever +Little Bird Electronics announces discount codes when there are parts that I want, I end up trawling their site for over an hour when I could be earning the cash to pay for it! I guess...
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Wireless Reprogrammable PS2 Controller (Part I)
Awesome Sauce Wixel & Arduino/Atmega Based PlayStation 2 Project ControllerThe ReasonOk, so I was at my girlfriend’s family’s place on some recent holiday and I was being asked to show off what my...
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IntroI’ve been writing a bit on the menu system I’m developing to get my design clear and optimised. I thought - Why not share it?What follows is where I’m up to.OutputsThe Robot Controller System...
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Wireless Reprogrammable PS2 Controller (Part II)
Standalone MigrationI’ve spent several hours over the weekend arranging the schematic and new Vero board version of the PS2 Controller project, as well as freeing it from the Arduino tether. The...
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Wireless Reprogrammable PS2 Controller (Part III)
(or how I came to ditch veroboard)Okay…So, in the last post, I was about to build a vero-board model of the WRPC, having successfully demonstrated proof of concept on breadboard.The reasons I chose...
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Dual Battery Monitor Adapter
This is a design I sketched up tonight for a compact in-line dual battery monitor adapter for Arduino. Those of you who have looked into battery monitoring for Arduino will know that the maximum...
View ArticleFirst look at WRPC with ABE
This is a pre-pre-pre alpha look at the basics of communication between WRPC and ABE. Spot the bug at the end of the clip :)
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ABE Signage
Randomly spotted this* whilst out and about. It's just begging to be defaced. Not as clever as "rave outside the guard's compartment naked with a blue light", but meh. :)*Those of you who know me well...
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Bang! Narrowly-avoided Disaster
What the hell was that? Not smart, I know. I was goofing around with an old transformer and I decided to hook it up to my WRPC to save on batteries whilst under development (replacing batteries gives...
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Sneak peek: Upcoming project...
A pic from my upcoming project. A Cheyne-Stokes detector (experimental) of my own design. Project requirements: Mum to remind me how to use her sewing machine so I could go all stitch-bitch on this...
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ABE Accessibility Mod: Continuous Drive Servo Configuration Windows
["What the hell happened to my feet???] What’s the deal with drilling holes in your drive servos? Continuous rotation servos are made by taking normal servos and replacing the feedback pot with a...
View ArticleEaster Weekend Project: Mood Touch Lamp
Touchy Colours Here’s a quick video of my Easter weekend project (well, one of them). There’s absolutely no guarentee I’ll finish it this weekend but the majority of the guts are done. The project...
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Introducing Sandy Lloyd (and project( Mayhem))...
This is Sandy Lloyd's first post on Electronomous so give him a warm welcome! I've been chatting with Sandy on G+ for a few months now and he's definitely got the maker's spirit. Currently residing in...
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Retro Product Love: CASIO fx-82SX
Going on strong I’ve had this calculator for maybe 15 years. There’s just something I admire about efficient design - especially power efficient design. The power consumption is listed on the back of...
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Mood Lamp Touch Version 1.0
Horse of a different colour The finishing touches on this touchy project ended up taking longer than I expected, leaving me with much less time (and patience) to blog about it. Alterations Since the...
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New Shop Search
[check out the bottom right of the blog...] I've been flat out at work lately and haven't really had much time to play or do much in the way of fun stuff. If you follow my posts on G+, you'll see the...
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Meet OSCar
"Hello World!" Allow me to introduce O.S.C.A.R. - Open Sound Control Advanced Recon Robot. Oscar is a differential drive robot running on dc motors- providing fast speed capabilities and tight...
View ArticleRGBshow() - Super Smooth Full Color LED Fading
I was working on putting together OSCars lighting system and of course I had to get my RGB led set up first. Several months back I was looking online for a better method to fade an LED. I cant...
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