a drop in the digital ocean: blog

Hello and welcome to the blog! Here you can find a current total of 56 postings about making, robotics, micro-controllers, coding and other such stuff.

Microsoft Band & Unity3D

In this post I present a video of a plugin which I have been developing recently to enable communication between the excellent Microsoft Band and the Unity3D games development environment....

Official Arduino Robot Compatible Servo Plugs

In a previous post I demonstrated how to prepare sensors and components such as Sharp IR’s to be compatible with the servo plugs and the servo wiring convention...

Wiring up a Quadstepper for use with Grbl

In this post I will show you how to wire up a Sparkfun Quadstepper so that it can be used with Grbl. Grbl is an Arduino based...

Simple Bluetooth Joystick

In this post I will introduce a couple of Arduino scripts and the accompanying circuitry needed to make a very simple Bluetooth joystick....

Setting up a Bluetooth Mate

Here we have a quick tip type post detailing how to configure a Sparkfun Bluetooth Mate for micro-controller UART based serial communication....

A Wii Controller Extension for those with Severe Physical Disability

The design objective of this study is the realisation of a Wii Controller extension, that would enable those with severe physical disability...

A Low Cost Home Based System for Stroke Rehabilitation

The objective of this study is the development of a low cost home based system for stroke rehabilitation which would allow patients to practice...

Adding Events to the Serialport Script

In this post I present an update to the Unity3D Serialport Script so that it includes an event trigger that can notify any other Mono-Behaviours that serial data has been received and then parsed....

Ratchets Headlight Prefab

In this post I will introduce some code developed for controlling Ratchets Headlights. The presented script extends the growing C# Mono Ratchet library of scripts for Unity3D...