Something like ten years or so ago, I built my own hardpad for use on Dance Dance Revolution and Stepmania. Most of the pads that are easily bought are “soft pads”. These vary in quality, I have a couple of pads that are pretty light weight and plastic I used ages ago. These pads tend … [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…]
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…]
Even before buying any Raspberry Pi computers, I had this sort of vision for neat rack to put several of them in. The idea evolved a bit as the logistics of it got ironed out but after picking up a second Pi (and planning to get a third), I went and built the thing. Sorry … [Read more…]