Wine Website Design Samples

5th August, 2009

Here is a better sample of the graphics I have been working on after studying a number of sites suggested by the client as to the style they are looking for.

Individual vine leaf vector graphics:

Baby Doves

22nd July, 2009

Had an opportunity to put my camera to use again, this time taking some photos of a newly hatched dove up in the dovecote.

New Site Icons

20th July, 2009

A couple of preview screenshots of some of the vector icons I’ve been producing for the new website design:

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Finished Final Year Project

30th May, 2009

Presented in the last half hour of the first day… Here are a couple of photos I took while waiting after setting up in the middle room of Babbage floor 2.

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Electronics

12th May, 2009

Although I’m still waiting to find out if the PCB I requested a week ago is ready I have been able to get on with trying to produce the remaining electronics.

I’ve found out that the Analogue-to-Digital-Converter of my USB board is pretty sensitive and simply connecting my circuits resulted in extreme noise rather than a smooth stable reading. So in order to solve this I’ve placed some beefier 1uF (rather than the 0.1uF on my GSR circuit) capacitors between the output and the ground which seems to stabilise it perfectly.

Powerful LEDs

Hopefully they will illuminate the centre of my handle, which now has acrylic beads glued into the holes in order to catch the light. I took this photo with my light on, not in the dark…

Thermistor Circuit

Note the purple capacitor across the thermistor. Without it the circuit gives out a perfectly stable current, but the ADC doesn’t seem to think so.

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Joystick

28th April, 2009

It was only bought for its components, but before doing anything with it I needed to test it was working correctly and what sort of functionality it has etc.

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Banksia Nuts

28th April, 2009

Before I actually do anything with them, I have taken a few shots of them ‘as is’ after receiving them from axminster. One thing to be noted is that they are actually quite large, so to avoid wasting this intriguing raw material I will probably rethink the size and shape of my joystick handle design.

The two together.

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Arrival of Packages

28th April, 2009

As I suspected, my two separate orders arrived at exactly the same time, so I’ve been unpacking my banksia nuts courtesy of axminster.co.uk and my cheap joystick from amazon.

They certainly looked better as mysterious parcels.