My main concerns about the car were the high driving position and general space for the electronics. There were some handy screws on the front and back so I though those would make good points to attach my own platform. There is also a bit of flex in...
Hi, I wanted since several days to write this post and show some of the interesting design choices taken in these days. First at all, initially I was having a choice to use a dc motor with encoder to control the movement of the telescope mount.&...
Hello guys, Just started to break and extract things out. Here are some speakers from Radio Shack, I had those amps lying around. Unscrew and opening up the CD Drives A few motors and Lasers with grating.&...
As part of this weeks update, while I wait for my package to arrive, I have got the project underway by 3D designing and printing test part for two of the mirror panels as you see in the picture below. As of now, I have the 3D printed parts printed i...
Hello everyone! Just a short update this week. I got the package in the mail! Everything arrived and is ready to go. I've been looking through the classifieds for the rest of the major parts I need: a deep cycle marine battery and an old bicycle....
Meeting with Intel's Edison Well, since my last post, I received my Edison next morning, so I will report my experiences and ideas from the first days of trying to use it. I think that is quite important, so that others could be benefited from t...
After I have two OS's installed and running on the Edison, I wanted to test. I am looking to use NodeJS and Python to complete most or all of my Upcycle It challenge, so with either OS, I need to know things are going to work before I go down the...
Hello Everybody,So far I have received the KIT Now I am starting with the following activities: My first task is to setup the kit - Mount the Intel Edison and make it run. I have watch a couple of videos in youtube how to do it, so for th...
As I am still waiting for the kit, I will share some more updates about the washing machine preparation. As we suspected, the original machine motor is too much for turning the drum at such low RPM (1-3 RPM). Maybe the new washing machine models...
<< PreviousProject IndexNext >> Integration Design Once sensor detects smoke, it will publish a message to MQTT topic. Then this message will be passed to a mobile application and at the same time will be converted to a command to sw...
The Hermes 3000 is back! Sorry for the delay but here is my 2nd post showing my progress on the upcycled typewriter project. As stated in my introduction post, my initial idea was to place some sort of photo-interrupters under the keys to detect...
As mentioned previously my daughter helped me assemble the Edison and Arduino breakout board.InstallationI followed the Getting Started with the Edison guide for Win32. The drivers download page suggested that the drivers were only for 64bit Windows ...
Motor investigationBefore committing too much time to the car, I wanted to check over the motors. The key things to look at were ensuring they rotate freely and to determine the correct motor voltage. Because the motors are sealed it's not possible t...
In my previous look at the software I looked at connecting up a web client to an MQTT server. Picking a broker Thanks to Jason I realised that the Mosquitto Broker that's provided is an old version (1.3.4) that does not support WebSockets. ...
Hi Guys,
Just came from home from Holiday. and someone was at the door already..... Yea the kits have arrived
The gaiety of seeing new hardware
Couldn't Resist myself so started to work on it
You ...
The project has to be analyzed and decomposed in different smaller parts in order to make it manageable. For this purpose, a system diagram and a Software Architecture diagram have been created in order to visualize bettern the different challenges a...
While waiting for the Edison to arrive, I had planned to discuss about the software.Before doing that, I will refer to some software related issues that I faced, while trying to set up an Edison environment on my computer so that I can be ready by th...
<< PreviousBlog IndexNext >> In my first blog post I described the idea and plan of converting my old nixie pulse counter to a versatile number display.My plan was based only on visual investigation of the hardware. In this pos...
