In the first part of this project I described the technical details of the shield After a few weeks of waiting, I have finally receive the first batch of PCB’s I designed and they look fantastic. Here are a few photo’s: So what are the advantages/benefits/pro’s of this little shield? Firstly this shield will protect your Raspberry … Read More →
SPARK CORE – WHAT IS IT? The Spark Core is an Arduino-compatible, Wi-Fi enabled, cloud-powered development platform that makes creating internet-connected hardware a breeze. This little board packs a punch: with a 72 MHz ARM Cortex M3, the best Wi-Fi module on the market, wireless programming, and lots of pin outs and peripherals, there’s nothing … Read More →
While looking for some information on an ARM based PC called a Beaglebone, I found an interesting project using a BeagleBone board. It’s an automated system that helps track the medication a patient has taken. It uses face recognition combined with a predefined schedule that reminds you when it’s time to take your medication. It can even be combined with an automated pill … Read More →
Igor Ramos has created a cool little Arduino shield that connects up to your mobile phone and listens for Dial-Tones that it can convert to commands. This is useful for making a nice little automated answering machine for your home or shop. If you are even more creative you can program it to switch on … Read More →
I found the following dimensions online so I thought I’d share it… We recommend the following books if you are interested in the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (Make: Projects) by Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace Raspberry Pi For Dummies By Sean McManus and Mike Cook Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with … Read More →
Background on the two setup’s The Raspberry Pi has a Linux-based Operating System. Linux is what the business community uses to run production servers. It can do all kinds of things like: Host Websites, databases , web-services, connectivity and lots more. It is also very configurable and almost anything can be automated. Arduino is a real-time micro-controller that can … Read More →
Morphex III Becomes Boca Bearing Company’s Innovation Contest Winner.
The Raspberry Pi is a well-connected device and at some point you will find that you want to connect to it remotely. This can be done in the following ways: Using windows Remote Desktop. This is a graphical based connection. Secure Shell (SSH) via client like Putty. This is terminal based connection. Lets have a look at … Read More →
The Raspberry Pi is a very versatile mini-computer. It has a bunch of General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins. The image below shows the pin layout and there uses. Raspberry Pi UART : pin 14 and 15 Raspberry Pi SPI : Pin 7 , 8 ,9 ,10 and 11 Raspberry Pi I2C : Pin 0 and 1 … Read More →
Festo.com is famous for their life-like bionic creatures and they have recently added a new creature called a BionicOpter. Specification: Wing span : 63 cm Weight : 175 g Wing movement speed 15-20 Hz Each wing has 90 degrees of control 7.6-volt lithium polymer batteries ARM processor
