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Testing the New Prototype for the Brainwaves Appliance Controller

ciorga — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 20:52:46 GMT

Here is the latest update on my work on the brainwaves appliance controller. Last update I showed how I designed a new prototype board, which probably will be the last prototype until I design the final product. In the meantime the board...(read more)

Building a New Prototype for the Brainwaves Appliance Controller

ciorga — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:22:55 GMT

Last update I discussed the problems I ran into when I combined the infrared remote control code learner with the brainwave appliance controller. As a refresher, previously I built a brainwaves appliance controller in a PSoC5LP chip part ...(read more)

Integrating the Infrared Remote Code Learner with my Brainwaves Appliance Controller

ciorga — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:43:09 GMT

This is update number nine of my brainwaves appliance controller project. To summarize this work, first I want to mention that I started this project as part of Element14’s PSoC4 Smarter Life Challenge. After the challenge ended I continu...(read more)

Building an Infrared Remote Code Learner for my Brainwaves Appliance Controller (part 5)

ciorga — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 03:55:58 GMT

This is the fourth blog update after I started to build the infrared remote control code learner in a Cypress PSoC5LP chip. I am happy to see it working now. It was a quite difficult job, much harder than I expected. In my previous ...(read more)

Building an Infrared Remote Code Learner for my Brainwaves Appliance Controller (part 4)

ciorga — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 03:16:23 GMT

This is the third blog update after I started to build the infrared remote control code learner (here are links to the previous posts: 1, 2, 3 ) . I thought it would go faster, but it turned out to be a quite difficult task, which I am s...(read more)

Building an Infrared Remote Code Learner for my Brainwaves Appliance Controller (part 3)

ciorga — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:38:34 GMT

In my previous two blog posts I showed how I started to build a “code learner" for infrared remote controls in a PSoC5LP chip. This code learner captures the infrared signal from a remote control, decodes the signal, and compresses it in a form...(read more)

Building an Infrared Remote Code Learner for my Brainwaves Appliance Controller (part 2)

ciorga — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:27:26 GMT

In my previous blog post I showed how I started to build a “code learner" for infrared remote controls that I would then implement in my brainwaves appliance controller project. This way users can “teach” the brainwaves appliance controll...(read more)

Henrietta - The Clock Version

dougw — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 16:35:24 GMT

This is an update to the Henrietta Project, which was a design entry in the Smarter Life Design Challenge sponsored by Cypress Semiconductor and Element 14. The Henrietta Project was a smart thermostat with a variety of interfaces and features intend...(read more)

Building an Infrared Remote Code Learner for my Brainwaves Appliance Controller

ciorga — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 05:38:14 GMT

I thought building a “code learner" for infrared remote controls is an easy job; well, it is not. I started by constructing a code learner function in my brainwave appliance controller project that I built using the PSoC5LP as I described...(read more)

Henrietta's Daughter - Smart Thermostat

dougw — Mon, 05 May 2014 01:11:34 GMT

Henrietta's Daughter BackgroundCypress Semiconductor expressed interest in converting the Smarter Life Challenge projects to use the new PSoC4 Prototyping Kit to showcase the rich capabilities of this much lower cost module. The Henrietta Projec...(read more)

PSoC 4 Tricopter (After The End) part #1

yuritikhonov — Thu, 01 May 2014 15:31:30 GMT

Good day comrades!As you probably know today is a playday in Russia. So I can try to fly Me and Vassili left the city and went to the country. And today we have not forgot a good camera and the tricopter! Today is +25C and Russian nature looks a...(read more)

I’ve fixed my PoC5LP Brainwaves Appliance Controller

ciorga — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 05:37:55 GMT

I have found a way to solve the technical issues described in my previous blog and now my brainwaves appliance controller implemented in PSoC5LP works. To get around the noise problem I implemented the front-end amplifier using a IN...(read more)

An Unexpected Problem with my Brainwaves Appliance Controller

ciorga — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:17:00 GMT

In my previous update ( Smarter Life Challenge - Brainwaves based appliance controller - Update 9) I wanted to implement the brainwave appliance controller in a single chip using the PSoC5LP on the Cypress Pioneer kit. I got stuck because the operati...(read more)

Smarter Life Design Challenge - Embedded World Conference Report

dougw — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:35:51 GMT

This is a quick report on the Embedded World Conference where the award for the Smarter Life Design Challenge was presented at the Cypress Semiconductor booth and attended by element14, who had a booth in another hall.There were about 900 exhibitors ...(read more)

Brainwave Appliance Controller – part 1

ciorga — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 03:50:35 GMT

After Smarter Life Challenge ended I took a break and now I’m back working on my Brainwave Appliance Controller. My plan is first to try to implement the project into a PSoC5LP chip and then to expand the project by adding two more electrodes o...(read more)