by shin956 | Jun 23, 2021 | 3D Printer, Electronics, Projects & Tutorials
Hey peeps, Steve here 😀 Here’s a side project I’m working on in the Design FabLab to learn how to use mechanical electronics, Arduino microcontrollers and coding. A pretty big endeavour for me as I don’t have much background in this stuff but...
by Thomas Lawley | Feb 2, 2021 | Electronics, Projects & Tutorials, Tutorials
Overview Designers need to communicate their designs to others. They need to be able to document their work so they can refer to it later or to allow others to build their designs. Regarding the design of circuits there is two great places to start to showcase your...
by Thomas Lawley | Jan 29, 2021 | Electronics
Remote Control Car Overview: This project makes use of an Arduino, a car chassis, a bluetooth module, and an android phone to make a Remote Control Car that is controlled by tilting the phone like a steering wheel. This post is a high level overview of the project and...
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 | 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...
