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  • The Cooker Connector - Blog #5: Smoker Vent Control Progress (Pi Chef Challenge)

    jschools
    jschools
    A few weeks back, I posted about the need to modify my project to include a new feature: temperature control. Today’s post shows how I designed and built my first prototype of a mechanism to open and close the air vents on my smoker. I think I’m read...
    • 13 Feb 2018
  • Pi Chef Challenge - Smart Range Hood - Initial Pi Power up & config - Blog post #4

    aspork42
    aspork42
    Hello! The goal - A smart range hood to send images of dinner and to do other smart things Links to all posts found in Post #1: Smart Range Hood - Pi Chef Challenge Blog post #1   I powered up the Pi for the first time today [a few wee...
    • 13 Feb 2018
  • Automatic Dough Shaper Blog #3 - Pi Chef Design Challenge

    a_davis_22
    a_davis_22
    Sometimes your mistakes are so simple, you can’t find the answers on the internet… Yeah... so after I put the SD card into the raspberry pi, it worked. I then went on to make several more mistakes on the same level, but eventually I figured them...
    • 12 Feb 2018
  • Cracked pepper sir? (Don't move) Pi Chef Challenge Blog post #5

    crackedpepper
    crackedpepper
    This week i was planning on getting into the production of the robot arm. Unfortunately as I hadn't grabbed the 3D printer i was planning to use I couldn't get started on it. I decided instead to implement motion detection to start the v...
    • 12 Feb 2018
  • The Spice of Pi - Blog Doug 5

    dougw
    dougw
    This week the Spice of Pi project has seen incremental steps in both the right direction an the wrong direction along with a lot of spinning of wheels both figuratively and literally. Last week I got the jar lifting servo mechanism built and this wee...
    • 12 Feb 2018
  • Bake Mate - Pi Chef Blog #4 - Monitoring temperature: Type K Thermocouple + MAX31856

    avnrdf
    avnrdf
    Bake Mate - Pi Chef Blog #4 - Monitoring oven temperature: Type K Thermocouple + MAX31856   Status Update: More parts are here!For the weighing scale:5KG Load CellAvia Semiconductor HX711 24 bit ADC (Load Cell Amplifier) breakout board...
    • 11 Feb 2018
  • Stove Assistant - Bernhard - Pi Chef #3 - Connect Panasonic Grid-Eye sensor to Raspberry Pi

    bernhardmayer
    bernhardmayer
    Unboxing the Grid-Eye sensorLast week I received the Grid-Eye sensor. It is a tiny device and looks quite unspectacularI ordered the version  AMG8834AMG8834 It works with 3.3 V which is perfect for interfacing with the Raspberry Pi and is a low ...
    • 11 Feb 2018
  • The Cooker Connector - Blog #4: Android on a Raspberry Pi (Pi Chef Challenge)

    jschools
    jschools
    Today I’m writing about an alternative to Raspbian, which is the OS almost everyone runs on Raspberry Pi these days. The OS I’m using for my project is called Android Things, and it’s a version of Android that is specifically tailored to run on Raspb...
    • 8 Feb 2018
  • S.H.E.L.F. - Line detection, additional features and Android - Pi Chef Design Challenge - Blog post #4

    milosrasic98
    milosrasic98
    1. Android appThe whole idea of this project is to make life easier for the user of it. To do that the user must be able to check when he's outside what is happening from outside the house. Most people nowadays have a smartphone in their pocket, ...
    • 6 Feb 2018
  • Stove Assistant - Bernhard - Pi Chef #2 - Unboxing and set up of Raspberry Pi

    bernhardmayer
    bernhardmayer
    Stove Assistant - Unboxing Last week I received a parcel from Newark element14. I opened it and found a very nice Raspberry Pi bag in it: Fortunately the rest of the Challenger Kit was also in it:So everything is there to start the challeng...
    • 6 Feb 2018
  • The Spice of Pi - Blog Doug 4

    dougw
    dougw
    This episode deals with design of the spice jar platter and an introduction to the drive mechanism. It will also include some notes on servo motor signals.The circular platter holds 24 spice jars in cylindrical cavities so that when a jar is pushed u...
    • 5 Feb 2018
  • Cracked pepper sir? (Playing and planning) Pi Chef Challenge Blog post #4

    crackedpepper
    crackedpepper
    Unfortunately i haven't made much progress with the pepper bot this week. I've started thinking about how I'm going to tackle the robot arm. I've managed to organise a 3D printer to borrow (which i will be grabbing during the coming week) but it...
    • 4 Feb 2018
  • Smart Range Hood - Blog Post #3 - Mechanical design complete!

    aspork42
    aspork42
    Greetings!Goal: a smart, connected range hood to send images of what's cooking and to alert the user if something doesn't seem right.First post and links to all of my other posts for this project - Smart Range Hood - Pi Chef Challenge Blog post #1&nb...
    • 4 Feb 2018
  • KCON - Pi Chef Challenge Setup Blog

    jkutzsch
    jkutzsch
    Intro BlogUnboxingSetup   <<<---Gourmet InstallLoad up some Recipes!Enclosure Planning.7inch Touchscreen TimeAIY Build / Google VoiceAIY API & CertsSucces with Google AIY! With tonight's Blog I wanted to go through the bas...
    • 4 Feb 2018
  • Bake Mate - Pi Chef Blog #3 - RPi3 setup & recipe JSON format

    avnrdf
    avnrdf
    Bake Mate - Pi Chef Blog #3 - RPi3 setup & recipe JSON format Setting up the Raspberry Pi 3: This part is easy:Insert the microSD card that's been preinstalled with NOOBSPlug in a USB mouse, USB keyboard and connect the Pi to a display ...
    • 3 Feb 2018
  • S.H.E.L.F. - 3D model, OpenCV - Pi Chef Design Challenge - Blog post #3

    milosrasic98
    milosrasic98
    This week has been pretty fun playing around with the Raspberry. I am new to the platform so I didn't know what to expect. Turns out there are a lot of great tutorials, guides and books online which helped me a lot on getting started with it. For...
    • 2 Feb 2018
  • PiCA - Pi Chef Challenge Blog #2 : Unpacking and Initial Database Development

    giganggu
    giganggu
    Since I am in the business trip (academic) until around three days ago so that in this post I will show you the unpacking of received the package and the initial database (DB) development for my server machine. Unpacking received PackageYesterda...
    • 2 Feb 2018
  • The Cooker Connector - Blog #3: Thermistor Calibration (Pi Chef Challenge)

    jschools
    jschools
    In my last post, I chose some hardware that acquires and measures temperatures. Now that I have a thermistor probe and an ADC, how should I hook them together and interpret the ADC output to get a temperature value? This post explains some theory and...
    • 31 Jan 2018
  • Pi Chef Design Challenge - Automatic Dough Shaper - blog #2

    a_davis_22
    a_davis_22
    Time is marching along and it's time for an update! My first post was a general overview of my project: Automatic Dough Shaper - Blog #1The idea is essentially this: dough goes in, gets flattened, shaped, baked, and comes out. Project T...
    • 31 Jan 2018
  • The Cooker Connector - Blog #2.5: A Slight Change of Plans (Pi Chef Challenge)

    jschools
    jschools
    Have you ever thought to yourself, “What a brilliant idea! I bet no one has ever thought of this before!”? That thought very rarely turns out to be true, and it just happened to me again. Oops. Since writing my last post, I discovered that the c...
    • 30 Jan 2018
  • The Spice of Pi  - Blog Glenn #2

    glennvanderveer
    glennvanderveer
    Hello everyone and welcome to Blog number 2 for the Spice of Pi. This entry is going to lay the ground work for the software part of the Spice of Pi.  The development is going to be done in Python.  It has been a few years since I have...
    • 30 Jan 2018
  • iTender #2 The cooling unit

    justin.berger
    justin.berger
    The cooling unitIn this article I am going to speak to you about the part hardware of the cooling system. To have a good yield on cooling it is essential to have good component otherwise this one can fall … 1. General operationThe goal is to hav...
    • 29 Jan 2018
  • Cracked pepper sir? (The outside world) Pi Chef Challenge Blog post #3

    crackedpepper
    crackedpepper
    The outside world... This week i started playing with GPIO in preparation for connecting a grinder to the current voice software I'm running.So i started off with playing with the gpio, i just ran a simple script to switch an led on and off ...
    • 29 Jan 2018
  • The Spice of Pi - Blog Doug 3

    dougw
    dougw
    This week the Spice of Pi has been all about designing hardware and ordering enough components to get it working.I had ordered a Google AIY Voice Hat to implement Google Assistant and voice recognition. It has arrived, but it uses a cardboard box for...
    • 29 Jan 2018
  • KCON - Pi Chef Challenge UnBoxing Blog

    jkutzsch
    jkutzsch
    Intro BlogUnboxing   <<<---SetupGourmet InstallLoad up some Recipes!Enclosure Planning.7inch Touchscreen TimeAIY Build / Google VoiceAIY API & CertsSucces with Google AIY! Welcome to my second blog where I get to share wit...
    • 28 Jan 2018
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