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Latest Photos Upload

Simon — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:11:53 +0000

I had bit of a backlog of photos I took of a variety of places mostly around Dartmoor, which are now uploaded.

Dartmoor Photos

Simon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:52:55 +0000

Moorland walks seem to inevitably result in camera shots where I take a few across a landscape and think “Yeh, I’ll merge these together when I get home” and quite often I eventually do. Here are a couple of the latest:

See all the older shots I’ve taken in the past in this group of Dartmoor shots.

Out of interest there are a lot of new websites appearing that make use of flickr’s APIs to display information but here is one that has been around for a while and seems to provide quite a few hits: http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/User/srjm. It also helps to remind me of old things.

An Update (Christmas 2009)

Simon — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:48:22 +0000

Here is an update on some bits and pieces I have been doing since starting my new job way back in October now.

Misty winter morning steps to work.

Arrival of the massive box for my new PC.

Because there was a video on YouTube of the PC game Witcher’s strange monkey creature, or Mamune which has subsequently been removed I decided to record my own and upload it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQlT8WVhVs

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Mamune

New Car

Simon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:50:46 +0000

New car for the purpose of travelling between home and work and more.

A Couple of Graduation Day Photos

Simon — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:19:48 +0000

These and several more have been available on facebook for a while now but here is a proper blog post with shots from my graduation day.

A T-Shirt for sale with everyone’s names printed on it!

Bee Photography

Simon — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:33:59 +0000

While out the other day I managed to take a few shots of a variety of summery, garden-y things including spending time trying to get closeups of bees. Here are a couple of the results:

Baby Doves

Simon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:34:18 +0000

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

Finished Final Year Project

Simon — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:29:54 +0000

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.

The DVDs ready for submission:

Project Update

Simon — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:50:22 +0000

A typical picture update of the project from both aspects, the 3D and the physical interface.

Digital Atmosphere

Terrain Spikes

Testing the spike generator for visual feedback on the terrain:

Pulse Rate Sensor

Sensor in the Handle

Electronics

Simon — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:16:11 +0000

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.

Power Socket

After soldering my socket onto a small piece of board (with the intention of simply attaching the other circuits’ power wires) I thought that maybe I should do a diode bridge to ensure polarity. Hence it was a challenge but I nicked the diodes from a broken AC to DC transformer and managed to fit them onto the board with enough room for soldering the wires on the end. Now it doesn’t matter which way around you connect the power :)