Here is a list of some of the things I've either built, am building or am
intending to build:
| Project |
Info |
Status |
| Moixa Battery |
Investigations into the Moixa Battery system |
Complete(ish) |
| jfyspot |
spot point reader for JFY JSI inverter to work with 123solar |
Complete(ish) |
| Energy monitoring |
Working out AC power magnitude and direction |
Research |
| Home Energy Monitor to Google
PowerMeter in Linux |
Basic Perl script to take output of E.ON energy monitor
under Linux and upload to Google PowerMeter account for online
logging/tracking of energy usage. |
Proof of concept |
| VAN Bus Interfacing |
VANbus is a protocol used on some Peugeot and Citroen cars
mainly for body control. |
Beta |
| Off Road Bike Lights |
Lights for Mountain biking off road down hill in pitch dark! |
Complete |
| APRS kit |
Packet communication over radio bits and bobs |
Complete |
| IRDA motherboard header |
Add Infra-Red capability to a computer with an IRDA header on the
motherboard |
Complete |
| Casio calculator serial interface |
Allow communication with a Casio graphical calculator for
transferring data and screenshots |
Complete |
| Serial Port PIC Programmer |
To program a PIC from a serial port with no external power
hopefully, for portable use |
Drawing Board |
| Parallel Port PIC Programmer |
Program a PIC from the parallel printer port. |
Development |
| Brake/Tail lights for my car... In Progress... |
Why not replace those old fashioned rear lights with some swish LED
ones, like the busses trucks and a few cars are starting to use. |
Development |
| PC Joystick interface |
Useful for general input to the pc with 4 analogue and 4, 1bit
digital channels |
Complete |
| Switch to serial data encoder |
Sub section of the In Car PC, can take input form a number of push
buttons generating some serial data to let the computer know you want
something done. |
Complete |
| LCD display |
Started as a section of the In Car PC but has been expanded for
other uses, uses standard ASCII LCD displays to show information. |
Complete |
| Serial to TTL converter (MAX232) |
An output block that lets us use 0-5V TTL signals with a PC's COM
port rather than those +12/-12 RS232 signals. |
Drawing Board |
| Variable speed intermittent Wipers |
Always have the wipers at the speed you need without any of this new
fangled rain sensing! |
Drawing Board |
| In Car PC |
Its a PC in a car! Applications include playing MP3's GPS navigation
and so much more. |
Beta |
| Controllable Webcam |
Webcams are fun but imagine if you could choose what to look at!
Here Zoom, Focus, Pan and Tilt are controlled through a web interface. |
Development |
| USB I/O Interface |
It would be useful to have some digital connection to the PC that
could be turned on and off or read in at will. Standard LPT is out only,
COM ports are getting rare, lets get fingers burnt with USB... |
Drawing Board |
| Optobot |
4th Year University Project: investigate the possibility of using a
standard optical mouse type sensor for keeping track of robot
positioning. |
Drawing Board |
| 12V (or so) ATX PSU |
Sub section of the In Car PC. The inverter was a little noisy for my
liking and had some draw backs. Enter the custom build PSU! |
Complete |
| UV EPROM Eraser |
Built out of necessity, needed to erase some EPROMS, not buying one
for 80 odd pounds when I can make one for around 20. |
Complete |
| E-mail Indicator |
It would be nice to know if you had mail with a simple indicator. |
Development |
| RF Link for Remote Control |
So many uses. Could start the pc in the car from the house to upload
music. Could, well, do anything but at a distance! |
Drawing Board |
| Parallel Port I/O Interface |
Used for things from christmas lights to central heating and burning hard disks... |
Complete |