Hey All, So just a little update - hopefully it'll help me get motivated to keep at it before the weeks end!! My project is still coming along - alas I'm behind schedule. I'm guessing the whole blogging and updating concept has thrown me. Thus f...
This project is about spices and we have 25 jars to fill with our favorite spices. Here are my picks from Martha Stewart's Spice Rack: It is going to take time and money to acquire a full set, but we now have a place to store them. SpiceNotesGro...
On Sunday, I plugged in the lifting servo after unplugging the spinning servo, and just blindly ran the code for my angle testing. I had completely forgotten that the servo was not the same as the spinning servo, and had a much smaller range of...
Building of the cabinet players.brightcove.net/.../index.html I have done a lot of work on the project. Woodworking this weekend with a friend.I went to a carpentry workshop to make the cabinet.It was a big job but the rendering is very pre...
Today I made another test at the cooktop. This time I boiled water in a bigger pot to see if the grid eye sensor gets the temperature right when there is a bigger area below the sensor at a higher temperature. Here is the video:www.youtube.com/w...
Today I will explain my current progress in this project. There are some milestones I achieved such as initialization of database data, planing the software flowchart before coding, coding the code for checking and ordering. This week will be very ha...
The tenth blog, time really flies. I am super busy during this period at university but finally managed to find time to make the first working prototype. By first working prototype I want to say, a prototype that has the functionality that I wanted i...
Another day, another blog... So after getting the servos to work I found out that the pigpio library, although it works marvelously, kills the AIY voice control dead. As soon as the service is started (with sudo pigpio command), the AIY mi...
Do you even lift bro? Well it turns out i don't, or more so my robot arm doesn't. I originally calculated the total torque requirement for the motors I was using when running at 6V. I hadn't purchased a power supply previously and di...
There's only one week left and my project is not as close to being finished as it should be, so I've had to make some design changes and cut out functionality. PyCNC uses almost all of the raspberry pi's GPIO pins so that it can do C...
WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!! Friday dougw gave me the assembled platter and some spice bottles to help work on the code and voice control aspect of the project. So I rushed home to de-solder my servos from my Voice board and attach some headers to ...
The goal - some improvements over a common range hood. aka Smart Range Hood. See blog post #1 for the complete build process. Cooked Pi anyone?This will be a quick post of joy, excitement, tragedy, and triumph.Last night I thought I was rea...
The goal - provide a wizard above the stove to do cool things i.e. a Smart Range Hood that can run itself and let my wife summon me for dinner. See blog post #1 for links to everything. Many things have been happening...I've been super busy with...
Another quick update. This mainly deals with the fidgeting servos. e14phil suggested using the pigpio library try to eliminate the twitches. I finally was able to get to do this and here is a video of the results: players.brig...
Today I made a better camera mount and did more tests. Camera mount To get compareable results I need to place camera and temperature sensor always on the same spot above the cooktop. So I took a few wooden planks and made a new mounting ar...
As I was waiting for my new PSoC to come, I decided to take some time to learn about gcode. For a long time I've wanted to know how CNC's work and what gcode really is. I figured it was a list of instructions like this, "go to (3, 2)&quo...
Finishing building of the electrical part {gallery} My Gallery TitleDistribution systemTec installation6 TEC installed (432W)The cooling program on node-redSome screenshots of the 8°C tests and settingsI am back full throttle for the final strai...
For my project, I chose to install Android Things OS on my Raspberry Pi instead of Raspbian. This post describes the structure of my Android app that runs on it. I recommend reading my post on Android Things if you’re curious about the differences be...
Now, I am in the integration step of my whole system after some installation. Recently, I developed the computer vision code based on OpenCV including the user interface employing PyQT. However, in this post, I will show you the redefinition of the p...
Today I made my first test at the cooktop. Test measurement I somehow mounted the camera array and the Raspberry Pi above the cooktop (you don't want to see any pictures, believe me) and started the measurement. Today my family planed to ha...
So This week I didn't end up getting much time to work on the project. I focused on final testing of the arm and finding an alternative to running the grinder from the Pi Face. For the final testing of the arm I simply wanted to run both motors ...
Another update with a video.In order to choose the spices, Doug has 3d printed a platter that will be required to spin and lift the spice bottles. In order to do that he has designed in 2 servos to do the spinning and lifting. I get to make the...
Today's Cooker Connector post is all about the Android App. Building a solid smartphone app is crucial to my project, since it is what allows me to monitor and control the whole show remotely. This post outlines my process and discusses the decisions...
