by Jamie C | Aug 24, 2020 | Electronics, Electronics Modules, Projects & Tutorials, Tutorials
This is a basic access control project to read and use the unique IDs of RFID cards including the University of Auckland ID cards. It uses an RFIDRC522 module that can read 13.56MHz cards and the code is based on the RC522 Arduino library found HERE. It can also write...
by Jamie C | May 13, 2020 | Projects & Tutorials, Tutorials
After a lot of researching here is a free way to create a 2D cut profile from a 3d surface. This method uses an Autodesk program called Meshmixer. It’s a free 3D mesh-based creation and manipulation tool designed for 3D printing. IT can open, alter and export...
by Jamie C | May 4, 2020 | Projects & Tutorials, Tutorials
How to embed Fusion 360 files into blog posts. As per this tutorial here
by Jamie C | Apr 22, 2020 | Electronics, Projects & Tutorials, Tutorials
Overview For this project, we attempted to interface hardware sensors with Unity to manipulate virtual objects and give feedback to hardware. Goals for this project; To use a sensor to control the camera position in a basic Unity 3D scene, and to turn on and off a...
by Jamie C | Apr 2, 2020 | Electronics, Projects & Tutorials, Tutorials
This uses Arduino and hardware to feed data into Processing for the graphical user interface. It’s an amalgamation of a couple of tutorials already out on the internet. Firstly the use of an ultrasonic range-finder (here) and some Processing drawing (here). The...