I recently purchased a ZYXEL 320 NAS (Network Attached Storage) instead of using a big power hungry file server. My overall opinion of it is really high, It is a great little device that hold two internal SATA drives and has an easy to use interface which is very perfect of any home user. However there […]
New website
I’ve finally released my new website, the content is quite minimal for the time being but I intend to add some more in the very near future. I went with a pretty colourful design sort of spacey as you can see below: I intend to add a portfolio with some of bigger stuff I’ve worked on […]
My step into industry
Over the summer I finished university and have finally graduated after four years at Lincoln University, doing a Masters in Computing in Computer Science (MCOMP) with Distinction. I am pretty happy with the end result, over my degree I wrote two dissertations, the first on the capabilities of mobiles devices to perform basic computer vision […]
Colour Finder
I am finally releasing the Colour Finder application which I started writing over 2 years ago. After fixing various bugs it is now ready for a full release,, this marks version 1.0.0. You can pick up the latest copy here. The Colour Finder application sits in your notification area allowing you to select a any […]
Pinger
Recently I have been working on a tiny project I have named “Pinger”, the incentive behind this project comes from my sometimes laggy internet connection, which causing me to Ping a remote servers to see what kind of response speed I get. To prevent the need for this, the Pinger application automatically pings remote servers […]
RooPI
So my life as an undergraduate student at Lincoln University is slowly drawing to an end, while I am still in Lincoln I have been spending some spare time working a little robotic project for some fun with Jonathon Woodliffe. The project has been to connect a Raspberry PI to a Roomba, we decided we […]
Autonomous Landing
Since the last post, The motors have been replaced. I have spent a lot of time trying to get the quadcopter to level nicely, however I’m still getting a lot of osculations and the system is still not complete. I have attempted to use the accelerometer from the multiwii board instead of the sonar alone and found it to […]
First RC Plane Flight
Yesterday I had my first proper RC plane flying experience in Doncaster with my new Bixler airplane. Needless to say it was very different to flying a quadcopter. I opted to fly line of sight (LOS) instead of first person view (FPV) and found the whole experience to be totally awesome. I think I am […]
Motor Failure and Network Issues
Unfortunately one of the motors on the quadcopter had died. This directly affected the tuning of the PID controller and until I can get my hands on a spare one, or more specifically install one next week I can’t test. For the moment I have focused my attention on one of the substantial problems I […]
Temperature Sensor and Raspberry PI
So I was playing around with my PI and Temperature sensor, mainly because I spent a considerable amount of time watching one my dear friends (*Lewis Greyson*) attempting to get a Phidget USB device and a temperature sensor working. This was a much bigger project about monitoring temperatures inside homes. Anyway I wanted to see how […]