In this project I plan to design and build a kitchen timer. We don’t have one in our kitchen and it feels like the perfect project for a hot August weekend. I’m writing this blog post while I’m building the device, hopefully this will make it more interesting as I’m sure I’ll come up against some problems and this will…
2 CommentsThis guide will walk you through building a USB gear stick / shifter that will work with any PC racing game. I have deliberately stuck to building the simplest possible version of the device in the hope that those out there wanting to build one can do so in the shortest time possible. (a YouTube video of the finished product…
8 CommentsOne of my hopes for 2019 is that I can actually write and publish some blog posts. Rather than just thinking of them then draft writing half of them. To do this will need me to give up on trying to write perfect blog posts. That’s the quickest way to own a blog that features one new post a year.…
8 CommentsArduino Live Wifi Web Scoreboard In this tutorial I am going to explain how I created a digital scoreboard with LEDs, a large dot-matrix display and numerical 8-digit totals. The device uses a WiFi chip to connect to the Internet to get status values such as totals and live counts, plus statuses such as on/off for the LEDs. The device…
Leave a CommentWhat you will need Two Android smartphones (connected to the same WiFi network) Hardcode game downloaded onto both smartphones (it’s free from Google Play) Two Google Cardboard headsets (or similar VR headsets) Two pairs of earphones Two USB OTG cables + USB controllers (or Bluetooth gamepads) Instructions Since the Google Cardboard 3D virtual reality glasses were first released in June…
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