So, exams are finally over and I've had time to get playing with something again. Some friends bought me a NERF Vulcan for my birthday (cheers!) and of course I had to mod it up. The gun itself is now running off a 3-cell lipo pack, which about doubles ...

I'm part of CU Spaceflight, and since we have clearance to launch high altitude balloons from a few nearby locations we often do launches for other people. A lot of the time these launches have a radio transmitter on board, so that people around the country can pick up ...

It's been a while since I've posted anything, so I'll drop a quick update. Hopefully by the end of the coming week I'll have finished on my current great big time-consuming project and will be able to write that up.

I've been playing with a ...

This is my first prototype robot. A friend and I got together and he taped stuff to cardboard while I connected wires up and then we wrote a basic program and the prototype drove!

This version literally just drives forward until the ultrasonic sensor detects an obstacle, then it turns ...

Well, the second matrix for my LED message board arrived today!

It took a little change in the code to get it working with two matrices, but now it rocks!

Check out the video of it in action:

So I created a PCB for the Space Experiment mockup.

It's functionally identical to the breadboarded version but is its own PCB, looks a lot better and has some text on it.

It actually took three tries to get it right. The first time, it all worked nicely and ...

So, I'm part of a team entering the UK Space Experiment Competition, and basically our proposal won out and is now one of six final proposals around the country! This is great stuff but we wanted to put on a display at a stand at a fair someplace, and ...