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Fingerprint Skeleton Key - Slider mechanism part 1 - Design for a Cause Challenge - Blog Post #2

milosrasic98

IntroductionHi! This will be my second update for the fingerprint skeleton key project. In this update I will explain what the slider mechanism is, about which I talked in my first blog (Fingerprint Skeleton Key - Concept - Design for a Cause Challen...
- 2 Aug 2018
Seeing Eyeduino - Blog #4 Motors and more

dwinhold

For my 4th blog I will be showing how I attached the motors to drive the robot as well as the wiring I started for the Arduino. For the motors, I picked up a couple of kits with gears so I can get the speed down and torque up. The gear ratio is ...
- 2 Aug 2018
Cue System for Anosmia and Smart WheelChair #4 - IoT Temperature Monitoring [DIY]

dixonselvan

<<<<Previous Blog Next Blog>>>> Audio & Visual Cue System for Anosmia (Smell Disorder) and Smart WheelChair - Ft. Amazon's AlexaWeek 4: July 24 - 30 The Smart Wheelchair has ...
- 1 Aug 2018
Steps for connecting Arduino MKR1000 with thinger.io for reading temperature data

dixonselvan

This is a support blog to Cue System for Anosmia and Smart WheelChair #4 - IoT Temperature Monitoring [DIY] and in this blog, I will explain step by step on how to connect Arduino MKR1000 with thinger.io IoT platform fo...
- 1 Aug 2018
Text Placement

roborob1266

Hello all,Yesterday I was able to spend some time working on placing text on the LCD to get an idea of where the icons would be and where the "I Need" button would be. Here is the code I am using for this: tft.textSetCursor...
- 1 Aug 2018
Ultrasonic Collision Avoidance System - Build Vlog 1

neoskedar

www.youtube.com/watch Hello Everyone! Sorry for the late start on the blogging. I had some issues getting the video working! In this first episode of my build vlog, I go over the kit as it was supplied f...
- 31 Jul 2018
Audio4Vision #3 - SD card and WiFi setup in MKR1000

pranjalranjan299

Welcome to our third blog post! This is just a quick update about our successful setup of SD card using SD Proto Shield and WiFi on Arduino MKR1000. The aim of this setup was to test the SD Proto Shield along with the WiFi connectivity of the MK...
- 30 Jul 2018
Week 3 - Thinking About Vectors

kyle90

We haven't done much in the past week because Dan is in Europe for a long-awaited family vacation. Back home, Kyle has been looking over the math for the accelerometer. Vector Calculus: Hard For People, Easy For Computers We wondered if we ...
- 30 Jul 2018
Touch Screen Buttons

roborob1266

Hello all,It has been a busy week with me researching the ability to implement touch screen buttons.I have found code on how to create a button area, detect touch in that area and display it out on the terminal.I need this button to look like what it...
- 30 Jul 2018
Design journey in the Design for a Cause_29 July2018

abhishek2018

Attached pic Trying lot code circuit modifications, not getting output as desired, will retry. However succeeded in few. Also will now decide after sometime, whether to spend money in buying powerful motor or not etc. Note : I kn...
- 29 Jul 2018
Fingerprint Skeleton Key - Concept - Design for a Cause Challenge - Blog Post #1

milosrasic98

IntroductionHi! This will be my first blog for the Design for a Cause challenge. I am extremely happy to be chosen as one of the challengers and would like to wish the best of luck to everyone participating in this challenge! This idea came to mind a...
- 26 Jul 2018
SeeingEyeduino - Working Braille Finger Pad : Blog #3

dwinhold

Hi everyone, For my 3rd blog I will be showing my working braille finger pad. There will be more to the final setup but this shows how well it works. I ended out getting 6 miniature actuators to create the braille pins. It goes back to my origin...
- 24 Jul 2018
Cue System for Anosmia and Smart WheelChair #3 - The Plan

dixonselvan

<<<<Previous Blog Next Blog>>>> Audio & Visual Cue System for Anosmia (Smell Disorder) and Smart WheelChair - Ft. Amazon's AlexaWeek 3: July 17 - 23 This week has been primarily s...
- 24 Jul 2018
5" TFT Display and Module RA8875

roborob1266

I received the Adafruit 5.0" 40-pin TFT Display 800x480 with Touchscreen PRODUCT ID: 1596 and the RA8875 Driver Board for 40-pin TFT Touch Displays 800 x 480 Max PRODUCT ID: 1590.I had a hard time getting the display to work with the MKR1000 dev...
- 24 Jul 2018
Blowing-Whistle as Controller(BWaC) -----Complete hardware for the Project#2

fyaocn

1. The core Hardware used in Blowing-Whistle as Controller(BWaC) is MKR1000 IoT bundle, which is supoorted by updated version Arduino 1.8.5,but the board support for MKR1000 shall be download and installed first.2. Arduino MKR1000 IoT Bundle The Ardu...
- 24 Jul 2018
Cue System for Anosmia and Smart WheelChair #2 - Official Kit and Amazon Echo Dot Unboxing

dixonselvan

<<<<Previous Blog Next Blog>>>> Audio & Visual Cue System for Anosmia (Smell Disorder) and Smart WheelChair - Ft. Amazon's AlexaWeek 2: July 10 - 16 The second week has ...
- 21 Jul 2018
Week 2 - Design Layout and Identifying Challenges

kyle90

In our most recent project meeting, we focused on determining which tasks were going to be the most difficult so that we could prioritize them. There are two things that we think will test our technical skills the most: 1. Integrating accelerome...
- 21 Jul 2018
Design journey in the Design for a Cause_Understanding Arduino IOT Bundle

abhishek2018

This blog is basically meant to understand some components given in “Arduino MKR1000 IoT Bundle” as they are not labeled. What this bundle contains- which components with it , can be seen on element14.com website but here I give explanation on s...
- 19 Jul 2018
Audio4Vision #2 - Initial research: ResNet as a starting point

pranjalranjan299

Welcome to our second blog post! In this blog, we would like to post our progress and findings so far.Over the years, Convolutional Neural Networks, ConvNets, or CNNs have been the top choice for image processing and recognition applications. The mai...
- 19 Jul 2018
Design for a Cause - Design Challenge – The Challenger’s Kit Received!

prashanth.nagendrappa

Hello Guys A very special Thanks to #Element14, #Arduino and other Sponsors’ for the Challenger’s Kit.I received my kit on 15th July. Here are some photos on unboxing the Challenger’s Kit. Image 1 : The Challenger's KitImage 2 : Arduino MK...
- 18 Jul 2018
Design journey in the Design for a Cause - Artificial (Stair Climbing) Leg

abhishek2018

Hello Everyone Its great to have an opportunity with an international community of Element14.com Here in this blog, I will present my design journey in the development of an advanced and affordable “an artificial leg support”, which will be...
- 18 Jul 2018
Roadblock with SD Card slot on MKR SD Proto Shield

roborob1266

Well, I have been running some code to test reading from the SD card on the Proto Shield and it has not been working.I tested two different codes to read the card reader and it isn't working.I formatted the SD card with the downloaded program SD ...
- 17 Jul 2018
Design for a Cause - Design Challenge Update

roborob1266

This past few days, I unboxed the MKR1000 and was able to get it to connect properly to my laptop and check it via the Arduino IDE.LED blinking so that's a good start! I uploaded a library I found to blink the LED for one second and then off for...
- 15 Jul 2018
Week 1 - Planning and Unboxing

kyle90

After coming up with our design proposal, our team met up to discuss the plan for the next ten weeks. We set some basic parameters for how we are going to build our device so that we could then figure out a schedule that will allow us plenty of time ...
- 13 Jul 2018
Design for a Cause - The Ultimate Smart Trike Design Blog 1 of 4

Sean_Miller

Add a Motor to your Bike with Arduino element14 Presents | Raising Awesome's VCP Profile | Project Videos Jump to Blog 2:Design for a Cause - The Ultimate Smart Trike Design Blog 2 of 4INTRODUCTIONWe are Sean and Con...
- 13 Jul 2018