I breathed new life into Flight Controller. I am working franticly getting it ready for flight. Expect a few last minute posts, and I mean down to the last hour!. STAY TUNED.........
Hello, everyone! This has been a really fun challenge. I've never entered a design challenge contest before but after doing this one, I would not hesitate to enter another one! It's come down to the wire for me and I have to say that whi...
Thank you element14, judges, and all the contestants and members that have made the past 4 months exciting for me and others. Building the Picorder has been very enlightening, a wonderful project and endeavor. So many skills are needed to produce pro...
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Introduction
This is it, the end of the Sci Fi Your Pi Design Challenge. It's been a long journey, with lots of le...
This is a part that has not yet considered in the software development discussions. IntroductionAs mentioned in a previous post, one of the Meditech peripherals is a small bluetooth 55mm thermal printer, covering a fundamental role, especially i...
As the glucose measure probe to be used as reference has not been delivered for the expected time (just a couple of days ago) it has been moved as part of the Meditech phase 1 It is the worth to start do explain what is the adopted principle and what...
I just wanted to take a moment and thank Element14 for the opportunity to participate in this design challenge. I had a great time completing a project that is meaningful to my everyday work. I appreciate the comments and suggestions from fellow Elem...
This project mainly deals with data communication, so it is difficult to show a lot of video about the project. Below I have attempted to show some of the pieces working Here is a video showing if the bit B3:0/0 in the PLC is a 1 that an email w...
Case design improvementsThe Meditech eye probe camera is conceived to work nearby the main device component for easier usage. The camera position with the RGB light ring (see the image below) in the case prototype is fixed but need to be able to rota...
Not much of a final update, i am afraid: real-world intrusions, and getting distracted by seeing if i could use the new 4D Systems touch screen to get around the limitations of the PiFaceCAD mean that i don't have a lot to show for the past month's a...
This past week I have been completing the code to finalize the project The MTrim RS-422 serial interface needed to be available from within the DF1 RS-232RS-232 interface object since the bits in the PLC that are being read by the DF1 object ac...
Programming the TransmitterSince the hardware is finished, it's time to work on system setups.First of all, I programmed the transmitter (a Taranis X9D. BTW, if you don't know the Taranis, google it: it's a open-source transmitter, so you...
IntroductionThe Meditech project is closing his first part. Starting from this post will follow a series of reminders and informative documentation to focus the point on what is the state-of-the-art project at the date and what is planned for the nex...
Well, I'm making progress but this iOS app stuff is a little bit tricky! Just about everything I proposed to do on this project I've had some familiarity with EXCEPT iOS apps. In fact, I've never made a mobile phone app but I've alway...
In this post, some details about the connections to the Raspberry and Navio+ boards will be providedAn overview of the required connections are shown in the following picture Raspberry and Navio+ powerNavio+ has three power sources, all o...
Today I completed the wiring of the TrainingSphere. The final result is shown in picture As you can see, I finally made the decision the use the Emlib Navio+ board. This is a really challenging project I want to continue to develop e...
