Blog 1 - Mark Hogan

 Blog 1 - Mark Hogan

January 27, 2025

About Me : 


Hi I'm a 4th-year Computer Science and Games Development student with a lifelong passion for gaming and technology. From a young age, I always loved playing video games until later in life I found out you can actually do it as a job. Even though my love for video games runs deep, this course has opened my eyes to much more. I like to think I'm a "master of all trades", constantly bettering myself. 

I have a very curious mind, I always needed to know how things work even if that meant taking them apart (and not being able to put it back together), this is part of the reason I chose IOT as I hope to learn the "putting it back together" part.


Ideas: 

  • Develop our own remote for the robotic dog with customizable buttons and display.
  • Develop a mobile Wi-Fi signal enhancer and relay station for the robotic dog. Have the dog have its own portable Wi-Fi hotspot that moves to find the best internet signal nearby and then relays that signal back to the user
  • Trail marker and pathfinder with GPS where scouts could layout trail paths and have the dog find the best path to their destination and leave drops of paint or chalk along the trail.
  • Develop and emergency distress beacon for help with a SOS signal and a speaker.
  • Voice activation where you can control the robot with voice commands, this could be also useful for emergency's if someone was calling for help. 

Microbit: 

The MicroBit is a small and powerful microcontroller board that is used for learning coding and electrotonic easy for beginners and can be used to create electronics that have sensers, LED's, Resisters and motors. The MicroBit is used in projects like Sensers and Data Collection, Robotics and interactive projects.

The MicroBit has a 5x5 LED display for text, symbols and animations, Buttons A and B for input, Motion sensers, Magnetometer, Bluetooth, temperature senser and light senser.

The MicroBit can be programmed using MakeCode, Python or JavaScript.

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