The Henrietta Project is a smart thermostat system entered in the PSoC4 Pioneer Kit Smarter Life Challenge.An introductory video that describes the system features and costs has been uploaded.There will be a second video to demonstrate the system.Cur...
Hello everyone,Lots of progress this week in terms of hardware and software.Most of the parts that I disused in the earlier post have now been interfaced and working in software. Here is how DAS looks now with respect to its block diagram:There ...
players.brightcove.net/.../index.htmlI completed a small part of the project, Here, the blue LED indicates the status of control parameter say, temperature. When there is a temperature difference the blue LED blinks. When the temperature sets in the ...
Here is a quick update from the project.A lot needs to be done for the GeoCar to call it completed. Well maybe this is one of those projects that is never completed. A project like this is an always growing project, which is great because there is no...
Apparently "Start a Discussion" and "Write a Blog Post" have the same templates and look the same, but are not. Some things I'm good at, knowing the difference between those two, not so much. Last Wednesday, switched from the PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit ...
A microcontroller project has a lot of soldering and coding. Sometimes things might even get frustrating for a while. One must be creative and keep the creative juices flowing at all times. And what can produce more motivation than having a logo. So ...
MERRY XMAS! players.brightcove.net/.../index.html I actually got an animated MERRY XMAS display before Christmas.A very simple animation with random colours assigned to the letters.This is just the Proof of Concept prototype. I have p...
Processing PowerHere's the result of creating, importing and drawing the font for the LED display. With the font captured in a 256 colour .BMP file for useable mspaint editing, I needed to import it into my program.I've done this u...
A few posts ago I plotted a map with the coordinates from the PSoC manually by creating a Google Docs Fusion table. Last night I finished a small script that post the data and a page to display the data.The web part has three major components:1. The ...
When I start a new project one of the first tasks is matching the needed IO to the resources available on the microprocessor. I create a spreadsheet to keep track of the connections and any changes as I move through the design steps. I've done a ...
The Font of all KnowledgeI'm furiously working away at creating content for my display.One important aspect is a presentation font. To really make it stand out I have redrawn a font based on one that I created back in the 1970's.This font uses double...
I created a little exploded view that will show how I'm building this, and hopefully explain how it took me so long.And here's one of the hand alone just because I think it looks cool. It might be hard to make out, the large flat plates that ...
Frustration and DelayIt has been a frustrating few weeks with very little progress and time ticking away to the deadline. First, my computer crashed 4 days before I left for Europe. The new computer was mostly set up before my flight, but I got very ...
Finally got all packed from Thanksgiving and having a good leg day so decided to get down to the shop and work on building up the sensor boards. Here are the boards as they arrived from OSH park. Went with the minimum order of 3 for now until I...
The last few days I have been working on python script to export and plot data from a GeoCar and organizing the circuits. I choose to use the "shields layout" that is used by Arduino. The Pioneer kit arduino compatible layout provided me th...
Hi all, it seems there's been a bunch of action amongst the projects on PCB design so I thought I'd run with the crowd... Over the weekend I put together the schematics and layout for this 2-layer prototype shield. It's a little bit quick...
First, thank you DAB and cy.gul for your comments on my last week's update. It turned out that the Manchester encoder that I built last weekend is not used in the infrared protocol of my TV remote. After more reading I actually found ...
My progress this week has mostly been in design of my robot arm. I had some fun with this design because being for a contest there is more incentive to do interesting things and less risk in doing stuff that might not work. To make this inexpens...
TOP BILLING players.brightcove.net/.../index.html The LED arrays come in individual 16x16 LED squares and I have mounted 12 such arrays on a single piece of MDF to form a 64 x 48 matrix array for my prototype (3072 LEDs).The MDF also forms ...
I was able to get a lot of work done over the Thanksgiving weekend. The bulk of the hardware is completed, and now I am shifting the focus over to the software. I am traveling this week so I don’t have much time to divulge much on the ana...
