This is just a quick video to show what prizes were received for finishing more than 10 blogs in the Bluetooth Unleashed design challenge.www.youtube.com/watchThank you very much element14 - this is a very useful collection of prizes. For more i...
For all the parts to this project, click here! Smart Doorbell System IntroductionThis short blog post discusses a wireless temperature probe! It re-uses hardware and software that was designed earlier, for a Smart Doorbell system. All the hardwa...
This blog post takes you through the building the Bluetooth maze, with multiple top plates as you see in the picture below. The Beaglebone Black Wireless is the brain of the project and is used to run the servo mechanism. Currently, I have two ways t...
In my previous blog post - Bluetooth Maze - Moving servos using MicoBit , I had a huge problem were the 3D parts that I had printed using PLA filament were snapping because of the weight of the MDF. And based on my conversation with a bunch of folks ...
Time for a short and quick update. I took Project LOKI out for a little trip to the grocery store and wanted to show the results. As you can see it was able to find 3 mac addresses while I was out. Here is our Blue Book ready to ...
Hello everyone, This is the final post. Which is good. Now that the project is complete I can think of enough enhancements to keep me busy for another 11 weeks. Goal of this project was to see if I could use Bluetooth technology to implemen...
For all the parts to this project, click here! Smart Doorbell System
Introduction
The Smart Doorbell System is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) project to build a better doorbell! However, it could also have other uses - to open and close gates, t...
As part of this blog post my idea was to post the final steps to build the Bluetooth maze, that is putting the 3D printing and laser cutting components together and have the servo mechanism moving, but I ran into a couple of problems. Basically I hav...
players.brightcove.net/.../index.html Hi, this is just a very quick update showing a longer video I made, using my laptop instead of the phone to handle the web interface of the Flask app. It showcases all the available effects and presents the ...
This roller coaster project had some ambitious goals because it is always fun to try and stretch to see if you can achieve them. Dealing with 7 MCUs and all the different development environments wasn't too difficult, but it was still lots of work. D...
This blog wraps up work on the Type-N-Text (TNT) devices. It has come right down to the wire with only hours left in the challenge and I really wanted to get these devices working. I miscalculated the amount of effort the project would take pretty ba...
I gave the mesh networking several tries but at the moment it is simply not workable. Mesh network is not workable. At least not now. IMHO the STSW-BNRG-Mesh is not workable for the maker community. There exists this library and there ...
Hello Everyone,This post covers the last of the sensors and the cameras. Included in this post are the Carbon Monoxide and Natural Gas sensors, the Range solenoid value, and both cameras. I decided to document the last of the hardware and software in...
Hello and welcome to my final blog post. As my project is complete, I'm going to summarize all the information about my developments and the system's structure. Anybody interested in exploring further is invited to download the Beagle Bone files atta...
Hi all, this post will elaborate on the use of OpenCV-based image analysis for the Animator project. As you may remember from a few weeks back, I managed to get some nice results recognizing LED strips in pictures with OpenCV, but I needed more preci...
Hello and welcome to my eighth update on the Universal LED Animator. I have completed the project and the following few posts (two more to come) will present my finished work. The first thing to show is undoubtedly the code running on my Hero boards ...
Hi Guys, From no idea to a final build..... yes our final blog is here. Final Architecture Rpi Code Flow As a measure of safety I didn't hookup the Relays with the AC Mains instead the LEDs on the relay module is...
For all the parts to this project, click here! Smart Doorbell System IntroductionThis blog post contains various topics related to Bluetooth LE including how to use it and monitor it. The information here is standalone so it can be read ev...
In this episode I am putting together the complete Type-N-Text mobile BLE terminal. This TNT device is controlled using a BBC micro:bit. It has an SPI LCD to display 72 characters and a full QWERTY keyboard scanned by a PSoC4. The TNT device has take...
Welcome back to my 10th blog on Project Loki! I do have a request for you the reader. If you happen to know of a Linux bluetooth tool that is not in the list I have came across and believe it would be an interesting one to test on the Rasp...
Hello and welcome to my seventh update on the Universal LED Animator. In those closing days work goes very fast (too fast sometimes, I'd say), and problems that have been left for later have to be dealt with. In this project, one such long-term p...
This is a quick blog post which includes attaching two servos to the Beaglebone Wireless and using a 2-axis analog thumb joystick to test out the movement and help calibrate the angle I need to move as part of the final servo mechanism. Basically eac...
First off a picture of something cool I picked up on my trip for the Project. You can see BlueDude getting ready to do some serious Surfing. :-) But the item I would like to draw your attention to is the Twenty Thousand Leagues ...
