DMX – The blog of Tyler Ward (aka scorpia)

Building a POE enabled lighting fixture

This is part one of a two part writeup on building POE (power over ethernet) devices. This section covers the design and build of the project, a network controlled stack light, and part two will go into more detail on how to add POE functionality to a device. The idea for the project came when… Read More »

The tech behind the scenes of an autonomous robotics competition

Over the last few years I have been volunteering at a couple of autonomous robotics competitions for sixthform students. One called student robotics which runs over six months and a one week spinoff summer school called sourcebots. In these events the student teams design and build a fully autonomous robot to compete in a game,… Read More »