21 July 2025 
Wheelchair users Experience VR
We ran our first VR workshop specifically for wheelchair users this week, giving two of our co-researchers a taste...
New RixTalk Talking Ruler
After creating the initial prototype of the talking ruler and considering some of the early feedback given to me...
15 July 2025
Hackathon25 at Rix Inclusive Research
The next Hackathon (Hackathon25) at Rix Inclusive Research will take place on June 18th 2025, and already the planning...
28 May 2025
What are NFC Tags?
NFC (Near Field Communication) Tags are tiny stickers, cards, and keychains that can store and send information to a...
13 March 2025
Speech Recognition Engine for Controlling RixBot
Finally, I managed to find some spare time today to connect up the audio system to a Raspberry Pi...
26 February 2025
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Inclusive? Workshop at Rix (12/02/2025)
This is the second Generative AI workshop that we have hosted aimed at finding out more about the accessibility...
18 February 2025
Talking Ruler (AKA RixTalk)
At a recent visit to the Google Accessibility Discovery Centre with colleagues from Rix Inclusive Research, amongst the many...
3 February 2025
3D Printer Overhaul
The 3D printer that I originally bought around 2014 was a Prusa i3 MK2. I chose the self build,...
28 October 2024
Lighthouse Project
A recent commission was for a garden lighthouse. It had to be tall, and light up automatically when dark....
25 September 2016
Update of Interactive Cow for MERL
Last week we added the ‘smell machine’ to the cow. This device is custom made for the cow, and...
Motorised Route Roller
A project I have been working on lately is motorising a ‘route roller’, which is a device which allows...
28 August 2016
Interactive Cow for MERL
The latest project I am working on with Kate is the interactive cow for MERL. As part of their...
30 July 2016
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