Category Archives: Tech

Mar

2012

Tool Review – Dremel Gas Soldering Iron

I first used my Dremel soldering iron (Dremel Hobby VersaTip 6 in 1 Heat Tool) when I was fixing my Ignition, I have subsequently used it for soldering a load of corroded wires together to try and get Steph to work more consistently, and have been using it on my Affordable Accessible Mouse. When I [...]

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Jan

2012

ROV – Part 2: The Hull

by Skippy

As said previously most people use PVC pipe for the hull construction, Looking round the internet for ideas I have come across Ian Leverington’s site ROV Robot Submariner, that sells a how to guide for building an Remotely Operated Vehicle, complete with on-board video camera for under £200 for £6.50; I have bought a copy of the [...]

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Jan

2012

ROV – Part 1: Project Overview

by Skippy

One of the things I fancy doing with my free time; and to help me learn to program/built awesome things is to geek out is to try and build an ROV (Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle); I am not sure why the “U” runs away and hides; it could be to do with the pressures that are involved. [...]

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Dec

2011

Affordable Accessible Mouse – Part 3: Software for users

by Skippy

Baby Interface Device (via http://matthewroy.com/bid/) is something that i found while looking at the Teensy Projects page, there were two links of interest, linking to simple flash games that can be used with my Affordable Accessible Mouse Project, Fisher-Price Online – some of these games will work with this thing too. They’re free and not [...]

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Dec

2011

Affordable Accessible Mouse – Part 2: Teensy Mouse/Stick

by Skippy

I have found a Europeen supplier of the Teensy Micro controler; Floris.cc sell it from the Netherlands, you can still get all the details on how to use it from PJRC.com I am using the Arduino IDE (from arduino.cc) and the Teensy Loader (from PJRC) this gives me the following pin out: My current code for [...]

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Dec

2011

Affordable Accessible Mouse – Part 1: Project Overview

by Skippy

I have been reading online articles again, and came across The Utopia Open Source Braille Reader/Display aka ‘Audrey’ project, and as such decided to start writing about a project that I am working on currently. My mum works with a young man with special needs, who among other things has trouble using a computer using [...]

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Dec

2011

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 1

by Skippy

For the last few years I have been using a Mac Mini as my desktop; With Lion being released, and installed on my Mac Book Pro, now after using it for a while I want to use it on my mac mini as well; one of the annoying problems with it however is it requires [...]

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Nov

2011

Audiobooks Done Right

by Skippy

There are a large number of Audiobooks available for listening to on sites like the The Pirate Bay (μTorrent is my Torrent Client of choice), some of them are already in iTunes Audiobook format (.m4b not .m4a) while most of them are CD rips in MP3. There are a number of advantages to iTunes & iPod [...]

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