26 February 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...
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
Flickering lamp
This example shows how to control a mains lamp using a 240V relay board and an Arduino Uno. The...
15 December 2015
ATTiny85 Programmer
The other project for this weekend was a really simple ATTiny85 programmer ‘shield’ for an Arduino Uno. This board...
6 December 2015
Digital battery tester for 9 V battery
This weekend’s programme consisted of several new projects (battery tester, switching mains lights using a microcontroller, an ATTiny programmer...
Driving a stepper motor with an ATTiny85
Tim Sunerton is currently a student in the Art Dept at The University of Reading and wanted to power a...
21 May 2015
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