Since the primary focus of this blog is projects, i thought it would be appropriate to talk about my new space a bit. Last week, I’ve moved into a new home. Mostly we wanted a home that was more on one level to accommodate my wife and kids and their mobility issues, but also we … [Read more…]
I’ve neglected posting much lately, not so much because I haven’t been doing anything but more because I’ve been busy and not really with anything deserving of it’s own post. I hope to remedy this a bit next year but for now I just wanted to run through some recent projects I’ve been working on. … [Read more…]
There was a post that came across on Medium recently, How to Make a Twitter Bot in Under an Hour. It’s pretty straight forward, though it seems to be pretty geared towards non “techie” types, mostly because it’s geared towards people making the bot on a Mac and it uses something called Heroku to run … [Read more…]
I’ve been at a bit of a loss for a while on what to do with my RaspberryPi B+. I have a B+ and two RaspberryPi B 2s. The B2s are so much more useful and powerful than the B+ that the poor B+ has kind of been tossed to the wayside. I was using … [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…]
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…]
So, just as a start, this isn’t a how to of any kind. There are already plenty of tutorials on how to do whatever with the raspberry Pi. Unless I’m pushing something unique, I don’t feel the need to provide another explanation of how to do the same thing a hundred other people have done. … [Read more…]
Just wanted to show off a little recently completed wood project. My brother ended up with a huge pile of extra fence pickets and I put some of them to good use making some shelf units for my daughter. The process was pretty straight forward, each shelf consists of 11 pickets and 3-4 30″ boards. … [Read more…]