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The Lamp Has Been Completed

RParkerE

The Genie has finished his renovations and is ready to show off his new crib, unfortunately he went on vacation and will not be able to show any pictures or videos until he returns home, but he has decided to release a listing of the house for all wh...
- 15 Jun 2015
More enchanted objects

Workshopshed

Some fantastic examples from model making company Pantograph, I particularly like the binary type writer www.spoon-tamago.com/2015/06/08/pantograph-imagines-gadgets-from-a-parallel-world/
- 14 Jun 2015
1958 Turntable from the Black Forest - Bonus 1a: Remote Light Organ with WiFI pt. 1

Jan Cumps

This is my first installment in the BONUS series where I'm tapping into the turntable's audio spectrum data that I'm publishing on the internet. My first bonus design is a remote light organ. I'm building it with an Arduino Yún, the Infine...
- 13 Jun 2015
Enchanted Wardrobe: Demo VIDEO

iayanpahwa

Here's a small DEMO video showing working of Enchanted Wardrobe Project. FEEDBACKsplayers.brightcove.net/.../index.html WELCOME
- 12 Jun 2015
Enchanted Wardrobe: Progressive Approach

iayanpahwa

Here's a flowchart explaining the complete working on Enchanted Wardrobe: I am bit conscious about the suggest clothes feature, Based on temperature and weather conditions outside the wardrobe needed to be suggest clothing for the day to the use...
- 12 Jun 2015
Enchanted Wardrobe: Building IoT Wardrobe

iayanpahwa

In the Last blog post(s) we used Yahoo Weather API under TEMBOO choreo to extract local weather information. The API returned data in XML form which we later parsed using Temboo Output filters and get needed information from the response. Now In this...
- 12 Jun 2015
19 - MagicHat first words

amgalbu

I completed the mouth and the MagicHat now can speak.I had to make some changes to the circuit for reading audio output. The new version includes two resistors and a capacitor to shift up voltage level by 2.5V Using an headphone, I cut off...
- 12 Jun 2015
Thoughts on Privacy

crjeder

An interesting research paper about security vs. privacy. It is about securing the home through "smart" internet connected locks and how it could allow parents to spy on their teenage kids. When the kids circumvent the system in order to regain priva...
- 12 Jun 2015
Enchanted Objects Design Challenge - Windows 10

Workshopshed

Matilda does not see the lightWhen Matilda tested the temperature status LED it was clear that it was not going to be visible from outside the cottage. The dark cottage interior sapped away the struggling coloured lumens. However, Matilda spotted tha...
- 12 Jun 2015
More Datasheet Studying

crjeder

Some of you might have recognized that I omitted one significant detail in the C code in my last post "Use WS2812B on the SAMA5D4 Xplained":How is the correct PWM clock frequency of 2.4 MHz configured? Clocks, Clocks and more ClocksThe...
- 11 Jun 2015
Enchanted Objects Design Challenge - Turn on and offable

Workshopshed

Whilst Matilda worked on the LEDs and top panel, Hans finished off the circuits for the MOSFET power switch and connectors. Circuit Explanation A MOSFET is used as a low side switch to turn the power to the servo, RGB LED controller board a...
- 10 Jun 2015
1958 Turntable from the Black Forest - 26: Turntable Finished

Jan Cumps

Today is a turning point for the project. The turntable is finished.Speed control and light organ with servo lift are built in.And now that the table is publishing data to the cloud, it's officially a Thing. If I was a stressfu...
- 9 Jun 2015
Enchanted Wardrobe: Temboo Output Filters

iayanpahwa

In my last blog post I talk about fetching Weather Information of a desired location using Yahoo Weather API and TEMBOO services on Arduino Yun. The purpose of using Temboo like services in my Design challenge project is to make project as simple as ...
- 9 Jun 2015
Use WS2812B on the SAMA5D4 Xplained

crjeder

More Details on the WS2812B The mysterious signal from my previous post was for a WS2812B LED. It was shown in Fairy Dust has arrived!. It is a RGB LED with integrated controller. The LEDs can be easily chained together: If you are really c...
- 9 Jun 2015
Enchanted Objects Design Challenge - The Crystal Cave

Workshopshed

The Crystal Cave It had been a hard week so a trip to the Adam and Eve Inn was in order. Hans and Matilda sat next to the dwarves who for once were not having an argument. The dwarves had recently discovered a new cave lined with amethyst and ci...
- 8 Jun 2015
Enchanted Objects - Enchanted Clock #7 - Voice recognition

dwinhold

Sorry for the delay in this posting, between working 7 days a week for the past 3 weeks and family I got a bit behind on blogging. Chrystal has been working on the thermostat regulator with the servo for a bit now. She is wanting to do it ...
- 8 Jun 2015
Generating a Mysterious Signal

crjeder

Let us assume that I want to create a signal like this: Where: SignalNameDuration in μs ± 150 nsT0H0.4T1H0.8T0L0.85T1L0.45Treset> 50 The usual way to generate arbitrary signals is called "Bit banging". It requires software to set th...
- 7 Jun 2015
The Genie Takes A Hiatus

RParkerE

My apologies for no update this week. This week was exams week leading up to my graduation this Saturday so I had no time to make a post. I attempted to access the Internet through the Yun while at school, but to no avail, unfortunately the Yun does ...
- 7 Jun 2015
MagicHat - 18 - The mouth

amgalbu

The last missing piece of hardware to complete the MagicHat is the mouthThe mouth will be a simple VuMeter that continously read the line output from the USB audio card and switch on LEDs accordinglyLEDs will be switched on from the center to the sid...
- 5 Jun 2015
Enchanted Wardrobe: Fetching Weather Information

iayanpahwa

In this blog post I'll show you how to fetch weather information from Yahoo Weather API using Temboo services which came pre bundled for Arduino Yun. About TEMBOO: Temboo is an online service which enables developer build Internet enabl...
- 5 Jun 2015
1958 Turntable from the Black Forest - 25: Publish or Perish

Jan Cumps

Today I'm taking that great leap to the cloud. The Perpetuum Ebner goes online and publishes what's happening. What is the Turntable Publishing? I have 3 interesting sets of data available in my design.The raw sampled data, 128 ...
- 5 Jun 2015
MagicHat - 17 - Systolic and diastolic pressure

amgalbu

I went through and interesting article here Basically, what they state is that once you got the correspondence between biosignal ADC reading and maximum blood pressure, you can determine systolic and diastolic pressure by applying a linear equat...
- 5 Jun 2015
Enchanted Objects Design Challenge - Knock Knock

Workshopshed

No voltsWhen Hans wired up the comparator circuit he could not get the output to go high. He swapped out the sensor with a simple voltage divider but still nothing. Thinking that he'd got a duff component he tried another, still the output stayed on ...
- 4 Jun 2015
1958 Turntable from the Black Forest - 24: Up to the Clouds with Yún

Jan Cumps

It's time to connect my turntable to the internet. We're in the last month, and I haven't sent a single bit to the cloud.That's about to change.I'm preparing my fixture to publish information. It's going to be a two-step exercise.First, I'm goi...
- 3 Jun 2015
1958 Turntable from the Black Forest - 23: Building In the Motorized Light Organ

Jan Cumps

In this episode, I'm combining the light organ and the servo control into one Arduino UNO..It's also the first provisional attempt of mounting into the base of the turntable. How the Light Organ and the Servo Lift Work Together...
- 1 Jun 2015