- DMX controllers and Unity
Been experimenting a lot with Using DMX controllers and linking them to Unity projects. I knew it was definitely possible as I’ve seen and worked on a project that controlled a DMX fan through the use
Read more - Dog Tracker Version 2
It’s been a while since I’ve visited this project, but I’ve discovered that the Lora chips I was using are now being fully integrated into the ESP8266 Arduino boards. There even producing ones that have an OLED screen installed
- Scape.io Hacakathon – 1st Place
- Davinici 3D Printer
Been looking at getting a 3D printer for ages and finally bite the bullet after reading a lot of good reviews about the Davinici Pro printer. Able to print with its own proprietary filament as well as third parties.
- Magic Leap
This amazing new piece of tech arrived in the Inition office today thanks to one of our sales people pulling a few strings with his american contacts. Only had a chance to try it on and check out some
- Halloween window display
Just a quick job while working at Inition to set up a window display at the Inition office. Simple enough we wanted to trigger an animation that would display when people walked past the office. Had a go first
- GPS Dog Tracker/Locator
This is an ongoing project but here’s where i’m at for now. After recently getting a puppy I was looking into what dog trackers are on the market an found all of them to either be Bluetooth based meaning
- Design and Manufacturing PCB
After viewing a number of tutorials about creating a bare bones Arduino Uno I though I’d order the parts and give it a go. After mocking up the arduino using a simple breadboard layout I thought I’d see if
- Pond Water Level using NodeJS and Arduino
I’ve been having a few issues with the water level in the ponds in the Garden, It’s a pretty complex setup with 3 ponds interconnected with streams. But I’ve been losing water through evaporation and occasionally from the streams
- AR Brochure using Vuforia
I’ve been looking into the latest Vuforia release included with the last update to Unity. I tried experimenting with the brochure that was used as promotional material when we first moved into our house. By using the brochure page
- Virtual Reality Customisable room
I’ve just finished a prototype build in Unity to demo a completely customisable 3D room. The room is designed to let the user walk around using a google cardboard and ultimately view video content on either the large cinema
- Arduino Real World Color Picker to RGB
Whilst creating a few things in VR it would of been nice to get the exact color of the object to use as the Diffuse/Albedo color to use in the shader. I had a look around and theirs a
- VR Walk through of Show home
Just finished my first complete VR walk through of a show home. The home is actually mine as I had all the plans from the original sale of the house. I built everything down to the last plug socket
- Google daydream
VR experiments continuing I’ve finished building another small prototype to test out the functionality of the google daydream controllers in Unreal. Little hard to test in the actual Unreal engine player but you can hook up an old android
- HTC Vive interactions
Been experimenting with how to use the HTC vive controllers and interact with the environment. Finished building a small demo to test out the point and shoot capabilities of interacting with objects. As well as building blueprints that
- Interior Walkthrough with Interactions
Just finished a tutorial by Chris Jennings on interior walkthroughs in Unreal Engine. Great tutorial but was more fun converting the final result into a full VR walkthrough and changing all the interactions from mouse clicks over
- Unreal Engine VR walkthrough
After experimenting for a couple of months now. I’ve been using a mixture of photogrammetry and Unreal engine to recreate my garden in a VR environment. I chose the garden as apposed to one of the rooms in the
- HTC Vive VR has arrived!
Been a long time coming but finally taken delivery of my shiny new HTC vive VR headset. If you haven’t had a chance to experience it yet I highly recommend it. Forget what you know about VR from the
- Capacitive touch control system
Got a little internal project on the go that needs a touch sensitive control system built for it. Been working with an Adafruit capacitive touch sensor hooked up to an Arduino. That was the easy bit but the
- Using adafruit ESP8266 with an Analog pin
Next project on the agenda involves building a remote rain sensor. I’ve managed to get the ESP8266 up and running before working as a remote webserver. But the rainsensor really needs to be plugged into an analog input not
- Using OLED display with Arduino Mega
After playing around with the ESP8266 for a while I needed to find a way to display what was going on with the module when it wasn’t plugged into the PC via a serial monitor. So spent a
- Experimenting with ESP8266 wifi module
Been trying out the ESP8266 wifi module this week. Amazing piece of tech for as little as £6 from amazon. Managed to get it up and running as a web server using NodeMCU but real mission is to
