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Another win for the Enchanted Cottage

2016-02-15T18:14:40Z

Proto-pic asked people to share their IOT projects and they picked mine as their favourite https://proto-pic.co.uk/The_Proto-PIC_Blog/iot-twitter-competition-15th-feb-2016-/(read more)

World Makerfaire 2015 - New York

2015-10-04T16:04:51Z

Thanks to a "gentlemans flight" I did not have to rush to Heathrow and also had plenty of time when I was there. As the plane flew into Newark, I took the train and subway over to Queens and got a view of the city. The nearest subway to the...(read more)

Hans and Matilda's trip to the USA

2015-10-02T06:05:56Z

A quick report from Hans and Matilda whilst I'm writing up the main report. Hans and Matilda travelled to New York in a stylish box.At Heathrow they stopped off for a cup of tea, it was a bit big so they did not finish it.A trip to New York ...(read more)

World Maker Faire New York 2015 - Initial thoughts

2015-09-27T13:49:01Z

The show is massive and I must have walked miles yesterday. There are lots of amazing things too see and lots of fantastic people. I also attended a few interesting presentations. One thing that struck me was the diversity, people have all different ...(read more)

New York Maker Faire

2015-08-12T14:17:57Z

When I met up with shabaz and mcb1 the other evening they asked if I was excited about going to the New York Maker Faire. The answer is "not yet". Part of the reason for that is I'm still thinking about the logistics aspect, where can I get my dinner...(read more)

An Enchanted Adventure in the Big Apple!

2015-08-05T15:40:16Z

To celebrate Andy Clark's ( Workshopshed) Enchanted Cottage winning the Enchanted Objects Design Challenge we planned something rather special on the streets of New York. Here is what happened on Friday night:players.brightcove.net/.../index.htm...(read more)

Media Coverage of the Enchanted Objects Winner Announcement

2015-07-30T15:54:06Z

Electronics industry media have covered the Enchanted Objects winner announcement. The outlets, and their stories, are as follows: Design News - Miniatore IoT-Enabled Cottage Wins element14's Enchanted Objects ChallengeECN - "Enchanting" objects...(read more)

Other enchanted objects

2015-07-19T08:56:11Z

I spotted today a great selection of enchanted objects from the end of last year over on Instructables, including a Wall-E, robotic raven and selection of Tardis based projects.http://www.instructables.com/contest/enchantedobjects/ Also David Ro...(read more)

Spin off posts

2015-07-04T22:01:55Z

Whilst the challenge was running I used the work on the project to spin a few articles onto the Workshopshed blog. It gave me a break from writing in the third party and also allowed the posts to span what was several weeks of the challenge. 3D ...(read more)

Enchanted Objects - Enchanted Clock (Video's)

2015-06-29T00:01:42Z

players.brightcove.net/.../index.htmlHi Everyone, Attached is video of how this all works. I put everything together to work, but without the clock everything couldn't be demonstrated. I set this up in the basement and couldn't have the ...(read more)

Enchanted Objects - Enchanted Clock (Final Update)

2015-06-26T23:40:00Z

Here is our final (But not final) update for our Enchanted Clock. My goal was to create a wooden clock and enchant it with the kits supplied by our generous sponsors, Atmel, Element 14 and Infineon. I wanted to have the clock recognize wh...(read more)

Inbox Multimeter - Evaluation

2015-06-26T22:03:57Z

When subbmiting my application to join this road test, I set myself 4 success citeria: Success Criteria: I will deem the project a success if:•It can accurately and reliably display the number of messages in my inbox up to 12•The system can cope...(read more)

oh no - deadline passed

2015-06-26T20:17:04Z

Just too late to meet the timeline I've been telling the story of the brothers Christian and Josef Steidinger here on the blog.Christian is the one who left the family business and started the Perpetuum Ebner manufacture.But to be honest, h...(read more)

Inbox multimeter 4 - Final assembly and code

2015-06-26T14:26:31Z

Today I finished putting the final touches on to the inbox and the code. First of all, the code. Unfortunately, for the past few weeks there has been an intermittent issue with the inbox and activity on the element 14 website. The issue has now been ...(read more)

Automatic Updates?

2015-06-26T12:02:10Z

In the below presentation on security Rohini Pandhi mentions the problem of keeping your device updated. Unconnected consumer items used to be simply build, distributed and sold with no process for doing any updates. Embedded systems did have op...(read more)