Tinkering

Tinkering

In my spare time, I like to make things.
I also do illustration work - you can check that out at my Instagram, Doodle Curmudgeon!

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Cigar Box Nerf Turret V1

Controlled with a joystick hooked up to an Arduino, this office terror still relied on a human operator!

Cigar Box Nerf Turret V2

Using a webcam and OpenCV for facial recognition, and a warning buzzer for intimidation, the sentry gun can now autonomously challenge anyone with a vaguely humanoid face!

CardBot V1

This cute little guy could only say hello when you did - but he was super great at it!

Framer Sprite Animation

Having found out Framer could be used for sprite animations, I was curious to see how I could work with it - resulting in this frantic little animation.

TaskBot Framer Animation

I like the idea of jumpy personal assistant in my phone who could have a personality not driven by voice - here was my attempt at creating just such a little guy.

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Herb Bot V2
Herb Bot V2

Built from experience teaching school kids how to build gardening robots, this solar powered herb garden measures humidity, temperature & moisture to manage it’s own water usage!

Cute little rocket from today’s workload. Let fly little guy! #launch
#ixda sketch-noting workshop with Atlasssian’s Ben Crothers! #sketchnoting
Another attempt at these dang-dangled “web” comics #ar #augmentedreality #robot #googleglass #chatbot
Stumbled into this cutie today! Tweet @vendinglibrary with #suggest and it will suggest stuff based on your tweets! With a tiny card! Adorable idea #DXlab #bigredmachine
Because everyone should have a webcomic to insert gripes into! #comic #testing #prototyping
Some cute leftovers from a project at work I was still mildly proud of #goggles #vr
Daily UI #007 (User Card) Anki is an impressive flash card tool I was addicted to for much of high school and Uni, and thought it would be fun to imagine if it had developed more social features for virtual study groups. #dailyui #dailyui007 #ui
Daily Ui # 005.An app icon for the last idea - #ui #dailyui #dailyui005
Daily UI #004 Calculator. I spent a little too much time thinking about this one, but decided the actual thing I wanted was a satisfying dice rolling app. All you can do is add more or less dice to the roll, then swipe to send them trundling across an infinite plane. Could have a lot of depth despite how minimal this looks - hold plus sign to change dice type, tap to have quick "pop" effect, distance based on swipe strength extc... #dailyui004 #dailyui #ui