a drop in the digital ocean: blog

Updating the Unity_SerialPort Script

In this post I detail the recent updates to my project for serial-port communication within Unity 3D...

A Circuit-python Library for the PAA5100JE

I've recently been playing around with the Feather RP2040 board for a new project. In order to use a PAA5100JE sensor with the board I needed to port...

Photon Control of a MOSFET

This tutorial builds upon both the code base and circuitry as developed with the Particle.publish() and Particle.subscribe() example. This time around instead of registering a subscription that can be used to...

Photon Publish and Subscription Events

This post introduces the use of the Particle.publish() and Particle.subscribe() events to enable photon devices to communicate via the Particle Cloud. This post acts to lay the groundwork...

A Simple Voltage Divider Circuit

Here we have a quick repost of a tutorial which I originally developed for the IoST project that I worked on back in 2015/2016. The tutorial details how to make a simple voltage divider...

Controlling virtual experiences using biometrics

Over the last year or so I have developed several plugins that allow use of the Microsoft Band, within Android based Unity3D applications. Finally, the time has come...

Capacitive Sensor Development Board

This tutorial details how to make a simple breakout for the Arduino CapacitiveSensor library. The library turns two or more pins of an Arduino pins into a capacitive...

Mixed Reality & Sphero Robots

The following text is an extended abstract for a another paper I hope to be presenting at this years ITAG. This time round the paper features the research...

Walking in Place with Wearable Technology

The following text is an extended abstract for a another paper I hope to be presenting at this years ITAG. This time round the paper features the research and development of...