I recently had an idea occur to me that I might be able to pick up used Raspberry Pis off of eBay more affordably than buying them new. I didn’t really find a ton of savings, but I did pick up an auction for a lot of various parts for fairly cheap. I am not … [Read more…]
I wanted to take some time to touch on my every changing collection of Internet of Things style devices. Honestly, it’s kind of iffy what constitutes an “IOT” device, but for the most part I’m sticking with “cheap” and “non traditional computing devices”. The chief player among these are of course… The Raspberry Pi I’m … [Read more…]
I’ve already briefly discussed my NextThing CHIP computers before. A few weeks ago I was purchasing a Raspberry Pi 3 and found that the store had Pi Zeros in stock as well, so I tossed one on because, hey, $5, and they are apparently hard to find. These two little devices are pretty similar, but … [Read more…]
I found a couple of Arduino apps in the Windows 10 App store recently, both put out by Microsoft. There is an app that allows your Windows Phone to act as a virtual shield for an Arduino board which I ave not tried yet, but I set up and ran a quick test of the … [Read more…]
In the last post, I talked about how to send data from the Arduino to the MySQL server. Today, I’ll cover how I’m receiving and displaying that data on the server side. I’ll put the code for the webpages into this post but I’ll put everything together in a nice little package at the end … [Read more…]
This is part of my little ongoing project of learning with the Arduino. I want to give a mention to Tweaking4all’s guide to PHP, SQL and Arduino, because I started out using it as a base for this section of the project, though I altered a few parts to work with my sensors and Ethernet … [Read more…]
I mentioned last post I had ordered some cheap Temperature and Humidity Sensors for my Arduino boards. Well they came in, and so I got to do some nice experimenting with code to test them out. I already had a bit of code from the DHT Test Sketch (Arduino programs are called Sketches) that would … [Read more…]
So, a month or so ago, while traveling for work, I was bored in the hotel room and found out there was a Fry’s Electronics around the corner from the hotel. I decided to pop in and look around and see if I could find anything interesting. I also wanted to see how much Raspberry … [Read more…]