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TKKOK D80 Night Vision Binoculars - Review

2022-01-17T05:01:00Z

The prize for the Spy Nerd contest finally made it here after a convoluted courier trek. I made an unboxing video and then realized I needed to understand it a bit better, so I did a bit of a review video. community.element14.com/.../NightVisionUnbox...(read more)

Snoop Dog or Snoop Cat

2021-11-18T04:38:00Z

Intro The theme of this project is spy nerd. I am a fan of spy novels, but I am not really into spying on people, so I thought I would have some fun experimenting with spying on my cats. That is about as nerdy as it gets. I wanted to do something a b...(read more)

Pi Spy Audio Recorder - Part 3 - Mozilla DeepSpeech

2021-11-15T17:47:16Z

This is the final blog post of the Pi Spy Audio Recorder, which is part of the Project 14 Spy Nerd theme . As part of this blog post I wanted to use machine learning to convert the recorded wav file by the spy recorder into text, and them email the s...(read more)

Happy Thanksgiving and Thanks! Judging period for Spy Nerd has begun!

2021-11-12T18:05:00Z

Just a quick note on the Spy Nerd Competition. Judging has begun and we hope to have a winners announcement sometime this week. Thanks to everyone who participated with their projects and those members that volunteered t...(read more)

MiniZeroCam

2021-11-11T09:19:08Z

1. Introduction Most of us, when we think of spies, do not think of George Koval, the Soviet spy who obtained the most valuable information for Moscow on the Manhattan nuclear project in the United States, or Rudolf Abel, who ...(read more)

Pi Spy Audio Recorder - part 2 - PIR sensor

2021-11-07T17:33:37Z

This is the second blog post for the Pi Spy Audio Recorder project, in this blog post I am adding a PIR sensor to the Raspberry Pi Zero W, to detect a motion in the room, so that the spy audio recorder can start recording for a few minutes, and then ...(read more)

Spy Nerd - Laser Communicator

2021-11-03T01:52:16Z

The Project14 program manager(s) have put forth yet another exciting monthly project theme, this one is for all of us spy nerds. I did struggle to think of a project that would be worthy of the ‘Ultimate Spy Nerd’ crown. I had contemplated trying to ...(read more)

Pi Spy Audio Recorder - part 1

2021-11-01T16:24:20Z

For the Project14 Spy Nerd theme, my plan is to build a Spy Audio Recorder using a Raspberry Pi, which will start recording audio when folks are in the room and email the transcript to the Spy ! Basically, I plan to break this project into mul...(read more)

Bad Kitty Counter Spy .....another fabulous WRONGCO product

2021-10-27T04:14:57Z

For the Spy Nerd Project Competition, WRONGCO introduces another revolutionary ludicrous product ......... the BAD KITTY COUNTER SPY. The Bad Kitty Counter Spy sits unnoticed, silently and innocently pushed back into the shadows on your ki...(read more)

Security System with Motion Detection

2021-09-25T14:45:41Z

The system is designed to detect intrusion (unauthorized entry) into a building or other area.Things used in this projectHardware components KEMET Electronics Corporation Proximity Sensor- Pyroelectric Infrared Sensor Module×1 Raspberry Pi Zero×1 Raspbe...(read more)