This website has been created to showcase my various development projects, robotic endeavours, portfolio items etc. so please feel free to browse. I will try to keep things as up to date as possible so do check back from time to time ;-) Comments are always welcome and if you need to get in touch you can always post me a message using the Contact form.
Happy reading, Stewart!
During January/February I worked at BoatShop24 developing a Wordpress hub site for PracticalBoating.com. The aim was to integrate the existing vBulletin forums with a new Wordpress blog framework. The final Wordpress theme involved the development of several Wordpress page templates and plugins.
While waiting to save up for my new servos, I decided to put together this “BRAT” biped with parts from my Quad. Here is a video of his first steps …
You can probably see that I had to once again revert to using my trusty meccano for several parts – namely the feet and the [...]
The small body footprint of the initial design was causing me problems – namely the coxa joints were too close together limiting servo movement. I’ve decided to use a piece of trusty meccano to serve as a new body until I can afford to get a custom aluminium body cut for me.
With a larger body [...]
This project was a major ongoing task at the ADS during 2009. My goal was to bring together our disparate set of web resources and systems into a fresh modern enterprise SOA architecture.
In collaboration with the Natural Language Processing Research Group at the University of Sheffield, Archaeotools has been an ambitious research and development project that has given me an opportunity to explore data mining, faceted classification and E-archaeology.
This is a quick video to show progress on my Quadruped Q-P1. My SES chassis arrived today 
Spent a few hours figuring out the best configuration and went ahead and built it up. Just added the servos and electronics to the chassis and this video demostrates the first power on test with some up [...]
I’ve spent the last few weeks busying myself for the move to Brighton in December so not really had a great deal of time to dedicate to iPhone development. What I have done though is to tidy up my source code quite a bit.
Short video showing the first part of my project to build an autonomous Quadruped robot. I converted the Phoenix Hexapod code to work with the Arduino development board and SSC-32 servo controller from LynxMotion. Only electronics and servos so far …
The following links provide further information about the kit I’m using in this video:
Arduino Dev [...]
Here is a quick video of my 1st iPhone app. In terms of functionality, there’s nothing much at the moment – but the fundamentals are at least in place.
Poker Yourself is a simple Texas Hold-Em style poker solitaire game. I originally released the game in 2008 when it was called ‘crap poker’. However, now I have a new host I decided to fix it up using the latest Facebook API and give it a more acceptable name.