After I watched the music video for “Love Drug” (below nsfw!) I was inspired by Ninja and Yolandi’s handwriting to create a font in homage to Die Antwoord. I left a comment about the idea on YT, and from the likes and comments I received it’s apparent that the world needed this! If you haven’t heard, according to many sources the duo announced that they will be releasing one last album later this year and then calling it quits, but hopefully the Love Drug font shall live on in art and design for years to come!

What I ended up with is a pretty unique font, free for anyone for personal use so feel free to download it, use it to create graphics, fan art, or even set your browser to display text in “Love Drug” font and read it everywhere! If you are wondering if the Yolandi and Ninja smiley’s are part of the font, the answer is yes! Yolandi is the @ symbol and Ninja is the $ symbol. Any comments and/or suggestions are appreciated. Feel free to share in the comments what you created with the font! If I have time in the future I may make a “sequel” to this, which would be a smoother looking variant, and possibly more glyphs like the Yolandi and Ninja smiley’s.

Font styled after Yolandi Visser and Ninja’s handwriting:

Also available from fontspace.com: http://www.fontspace.com/kevingullingcom/love-drug

If you have any questions about what, where, when, why you can use this font, feel free to contact me.
Stay Zef out there!

The Font “Love Drug”
(https://kevingulling.com/2017/05/die-antwoord-font-love-drug-free-zef-font) by “KevinGulling.com”
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

KevinGulling.com has no affiliation, sponsorship, nor any partnerships with Die Antwoord or Zef Records, LLC

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After a recent hospital visit, I was given a disposable spo2 sensor to monitor my oxygen saturation and pulse which is standard practice these days. Rather than let the nurse toss my sensor afterwards, I decided to take it home and tinker with it. It would be pretty neat to have my own spo2 monitor at home, never know when it could come in handy! I am especially interested in the applications that it can be applied to in the gaming world, such as fitness gaming, so I created a Unity asset that can handle the readings and graph the results, much like an ECG.

A couple of you have asked for more details about the project so here’s everything I have so far (work in progress).

I couldn’t find much on the exact sensors that Masimo uses in their resposable SP02 sensors, so disclaimer: I’m just sort of winging it here, there is definitely more info needed to perfect this project… That being said, without wasting any more time, here is the project:

Project materials:
-Arduino Uno R3
-Masimo Universal Resposable SPO2 Pulse Oximeter
-Breadboard
-10k resistor
-220 resistor
-330 resistor

SPO2 sketch:


The circuit:

This handy tool I made in Unity reads the data we send to the serial com and graphs it for us in a manner that emulates an ECG.

Download Unity3D SPO2 grapher for Windows

You’ll notice that I commented out a few lines in the sketch. Enable these lines if you would rather plot your graph using an online tool such as FooPlot rather than the realtime Unity3d made monitor.

If you have any information to contribute for the advancement of this project, leave a comment or contact me and I’ll be sure to keep this article up-to-date with new findings! If you have any questions go ahead and leave those in the comments as well and I’ll do my best to answer any.

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#1 – Audio Jungle
Audio Jungle is by far my favorite and most used resource for both SFX and game music when I’m not making my own. The quality control is impeccable, and there is no need to cull out the low quality sounds because for the most part, they don’t make it past Audio Jungles screening process. There are sounds starting from $1 each and when you need a sound in a jiffy, Audio Jungle is the way to go.
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#2 – FreeSound.org
FreeSound.org has a ton of audio clips, effects, recordings, and a lot of unmastered stuff – all free Creative Commons Licensing.

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#3 – CCMixter
CCMixter is a great resource for free music. Most of the genres you’ll find here ‘dance’ style music, but there is an occasional pop or rock song available too.

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#4 – Sound Bible
Search preview & download free sounds for instant use in your game.
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#5 – Flashkit
I’ve been using Flashkit since the 90’s, and even though most of the stuff on here is pretty old, it still remains to be one of the best resources for free sfx that I have found.

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#6 – OpenGameArt.org
OpenGameArt is another site that is human edited for quality assurance. This site has a lot of free licensing option.

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#7 – SoundDogs
Another site that I have been using for years to find simple sound effects.

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#8 – Newgrounds
Newgrounds has been online since the early 90’s but it was only a decade or so ago that they began the ‘Audio Portal’. A massive collection of user-submitted audio free to use in your NG projects.

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#9 – Unity Asset Store
If you use Unity, don’t rule out the asset store for SFX. You can find a lot of free and low-cost sound packs available, which could cover every sound you need for your project in one package.

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#10 KevinGulling.com/assets

I’ve put together a compendium of my sounds and other assets and made them available for download here for use in your personal or commercial projects.

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