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 mentioned getting my CHIPs from NextThing aq bit ago, but I have not really done much with them. I noticed a bit of an issue keeping them powered when I set them up and assumed I had been using a power supply that wasn’t ideal. I believe it was the one off of the … [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…]
I just want to start here by saying CHIP is kind of a shitty name for a computer thing, there is no effective way to do any sort of search for “Chip computer” since “computer chip” has been a thing for eternity and gives the same results. This thing really needs a re-branding or something. … [Read more…]
I’ve been hitting the Raspberry Pi and Arduino pretty hard lately. I plan to detail my projects some here in the future but I figured it would be good to start off with a little “why” and a little history. I mentioned the Arduino, but I only plan on touching on the Raspberry Pi here … [Read more…]