Author Archives: Christy Cairns
Lounger 17
To have a break from Uni work and work-work I’ve been setting myself some diy projects. One thing I’ve been meaning to do for ag [...]
Adruino Libraries & LCD Display
The task for this week was to find out how connect and control a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) with an Arduino. Connecting an LCD is physic [...]
Arduino Traffic light
First Arduino Assignment After our first Arduino session we were asked to use what we had learnt about loop functions and pin output to make [...]
Kyle’s Arduino Rundown
As some people hadn’t been in the timetabled Arduino intro session it was decided that Kyle (https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/kylewitheyde [...]
Creepy-Peepy Arduino
In my first post about programming Arduinos I used the ‘Blink’ program to make an external LED flash. As it’s lockdown an [...]
Centering Embedded Video
I just found a way to centre an embedded video in a post (see here for info about embedded video). So far all embedded video has aligned to [...]
Arduino Programming and Flashing LEDs
Choose ‘Examples ’ on the menu on the left, then ‘Basic ’ and ‘Blink ’. The Blink sketch is now displayed in the code area. [...]
Intro to Arduinos
We’re back from Easter and for the next 3 weeks we’ll be having weekly sessions on Arduinos. The official Arduino introduction c [...]
CNC Machining
Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machining refers to the process of a machine or tool using numeric data as instructions to control a m [...]
3d Scanning, Blender, Meshmixer & Cura
The plan here was to take the .PLY file of the scan of a plant that I produced in my previous post and import that into Meshmixer so that I [...]
3d Scanning
3d scanning is the process of capturing the size and shape of a real world object or environment. Ways of 3d scanning generally fall into 2 [...]
FEATURED IMAGES
Posts and pages can have a Featured Image set. Where and how the image is displayed depends on the theme of the site. With the theme I’ [...]
Choosing a new layout and theme
As I mentioned in the previous post I’m going to change how the site looks and works. I want all new content to be uploaded as posts a [...]
Adjusting the layout and theme of my site
I’m not been very satisfied with how my site looks and works, this is for two reasons: When I chose the theme I had almost no content [...]
Embedded Programming – Mirco:bit OLED Game
Another little project I wanted to do now that we had the OLED screen working correctly was to try and see if I could replicate this simple [...]
Embedded Programming – Mirco:bit OLED
After the failure of the LCD I got another Micro:bit and a 0.98″ 128×64 pixel OLED screen and returned to the suggested task of using [...]
Embedded Programming – Mirco:bit LCD
Another challenge was to connect an OLED displauy and get it to display a reading such as temp. As I had a 16 pin LCD screen I decided to tr [...]
Electronics Design – Micro:bit Radio Chat
Another good exercise uses the inbuilt radio to let two Micro:bits communicate with each other. Me and classmate Max (blogs.brighton.ac.uk/m [...]
Electronics Design – The Tasks
With knowledge of Micro:bits and how they’re programmed (detailed in previous post) we were tasked with experimenting with reproducing [...]
Electronics Design
Along with designing electronics using software and diagrams as detailed in my previous post we were also tasked with exploring programming [...]
Electronics Production – The Tasks
Initial task We were tasked with creating a simple circuit on a breadboard that used an input, output and a capacitor. We also had to plan t [...]
Electronics Production – The Basics
The differences between electrical and electronic devices: Electrical devices are powered by electricity (e.g. lights, kettle, fridge, toas [...]
Computer Controlled Cutting
Week 3 – How to get a computer to control your cutting. As ever, this project started with a look at the Fab Academy notes HERE and wa [...]
Autodesk Maya
In addition to the die modelling task we were set and as I had previously used both Solidworks and Fusion 360 I decided to also lean the bas [...]
Fusion 360
As I mentioned in a previous post I’ve used both Solidworks and Fusion 360 but I’m much more confident with Solidworks so my aim [...]
Parametric Design/Modelling
What is Parametric Modelling? Parametric modelling is the relation of many geometries to one dimension and the ability to modify those geome [...]
Computer Aided Design
CAD is not all fun Mostly error signs and fails You gotta use it – BAH, a Brain Aided Haiku The second week of our Digital Fabr [...]
Plugins and Widgets
Plugins Plugins are installable programs, created by WordPress (WP) community members, that provide additional features for your site. They [...]
Embedding Video
Embedding Embedding a video is a method of inserting the video into a site that it is being hosted externally and reduces the memory require [...]
Adding Media
Media Photos, videos, documents and more can all be added to WP sites. There are two main ways to do it which depend more on whether you kno [...]
Creating Menus
When I had made a couple of posts and pages I experimented with how to edit the top menus so that each page is available. It is possible to [...]
Creating a website inc. Themes, Posts, Pages
Starting a site The first assignment was to make a website and to start populating it, the results of which are here, all around you – [...]