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Fox Valley Linux User Group: August 2013 meeting

fustini

I attended a suburban Chicago Linux User Group last weekend for the first time - as it turns out - in my hometown of Batavia where Fermilab is located: Fox Valley Linux User Group - August 2013 meeting:http://www.meetup.com/FoxValleyLUG/events/1...
- 23 Aug 2013
Raspberry Pi server cluster

e14 Contributor

I recently built a Raspberry Pi cluster just to see how it's done. I have no idea how to use a super computer, so I built a web server cluster instead. I used four Raspberry Pi nodes, and I'm using a PC as a load balancer to distribute HT...
- 21 Aug 2013
About me (If your interested)!!

dwinhold

Let's start with my name is Dale Winhold, I'm 44, started with computers when I was around 8. The Apple was the first one I got to play with at school. My first computer I owned was a TI99-4A with a massive 16K of memory (kind of makes me laugh now)....
- 16 Aug 2013
Exploring FPGAs

billabott

Thanks to a wonderful fellow engineer, Mr. Shabaz, I now have a KNJN.com Pluto II FPGA board with an Altera Cyclone installed to experiment with. It seems to offer the same kind of fun exploration and experimentation as many of the microcontrol...
- 14 Aug 2013
Active Sensor/Probe Interface, and USBPSoC

uplatise

Purpose of this project is to design a configurable active sensor/probe interface based on 4-pole jack interface featuring all standard digital interfaces, such as UART, I2C, 1-Wire, 2-Wire SPI, IrDA, besides GPIO, high performance analog interface w...
- 10 Aug 2013
Pure Pi Beauty

billabott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7tq7L0N8E
- 10 Aug 2013
MCU-controlled buck regulator

RWM

If you need some simple regulated power supply, you can build it using MCU and few external components:PWM frequency 250kHz for max. output curent 500mA and supply voltage 12V with 100uH coil. Output voltage regulated from 0.3 to +SUPPLY-0.7V @Io=200...
- 9 Aug 2013
MODBUS master in my cell phone

gihu

In this post I would like to show the community a project I started last summer: The goal: Read an 8 analog input MODBUS RTU module with an android phone. Motivations: Learn about MODBUS. Build my first android app (afte...
- 5 Aug 2013
Why the Internet Exists

bluescreen
- 5 Aug 2013
Digital Logic for the Unenlightened

billabott

In my Quest for Oneness with the Universe, I recently stumbled upon some very new and very useful resources on the WWW. They are an Open Source book and a software sim. The free e-book can be downloaded from http://www.lulu.com/shop/georg...
- 4 Aug 2013
RPi/Z-wave project: Adding in the Pi-Face

packetgeek

Had a little time on my hands today. Ended up putting the Pi-Face on the second RPi and connecting doorbell buttons to it. Wrote a C program and two Perl scripts to toggle the office lights when one of the doorbell buttons is pushed.&nbsp...
- 3 Aug 2013
How to Properly Destroy a Hard Drive

e14 Contributor

Today’s technological advances are presenting a wide variety of problems that must be solved. From implementing the best software applications to buying the most recent computer hardware, businesses all over the world are constantly making transition...
- 2 Aug 2013
Insight: How Samsung is beating Apple in China

e14 Contributor

Source Link GUANGZHOU, China/SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his path breaking company. But time looks to be on the side of rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, w...
- 29 Jul 2013
My PiCam and PiGlasses

fidelsalinas

It has been a while since I've had my pi CSI CAM. My original plans are to make somewhat of a baby monitor with the CSI CAM.I started by messing around with python and point reconition so that way I can take a photo of the baby every day in the same ...
- 27 Jul 2013
Adding WiFi to a Raspberry Pi

e14 Contributor

Adding a WiFi option to the Raspberry Pi is an easy way to set your raspberry free so you dont have to worry about running network cables when deploying a raspberry pi project. This guide is based of a how-to I wrote for the raspberrypihq.com website...
- 27 Jul 2013
RPi/Z-wave project: Controlling lights with wget

packetgeek

Had a chance to play with the RaZberry yesterday. In reading about it, noticed that you could control devices via either JSON or simple URLs (via a browser). Being a total n00b, it took me an hour or so to figure out what was needed to co...
- 27 Jul 2013
RPi/Z-wave project: Lessons Learned #1

packetgeek

I now have a working controller, using the demo software provided with the RaZberry board. However, I did waste some money and time in learning the following about incompatibilities with the IRIS system. Unusable Hardware - IRIS Smar...
- 25 Jul 2013
RPi/Z-wave project on hold (Update 2)

packetgeek

Project is no longer on hold as I now have a GE Lamp Module, Model ZW3101, which I picked up at Lowes*. It works with the Razberry demo software with no extra fuss. More later (another busy week ahead). * Important!! Lowes appe...
- 23 Jul 2013
RPi/Z-wave project on hold (Update 1)

packetgeek

I received the Razberry daughterboard this week. Installation is only slightly buggy in that I couldn't use the wget statement in the docs to pipe the download to a shell. Instead, I had to download the "install" script and run it via:&nb...
- 21 Jul 2013
Review of the XBMC Bundle for Raspberry Pi

GreenYamo

I recently acquired the XBMC bundle that Farnell have put together for the Raspbery Pi and this is my review of the kit. The package is well presented in a small box (As you can see left) and includes an SD card, HDMI lead, network cable and wha...
- 21 Jul 2013
Giant Robot From Comic Con 2013

patkelly

This is just too amazing not to share. www.youtube.com/watch
- 19 Jul 2013
My blog

e14 Contributor

My current blog is not this one it is http://techedison.blogspot.com/I am going to keep this blog updated (hopefully) just in case you do not want to go to my real blog.Here are a few pictures of my blog...
- 16 Jul 2013
Panasonic SP Cap

jing.liu

As leading manufacturer for polymer capacitor technology, Panasonic has developed "SP Cap" since 1984.Its full name is "Conductive Polymer Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitor" or "Specilty Polymer Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitor". However, we usually p...
- 15 Jul 2013
Panasonic A-FR series: Low ESR Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors (radial lead type)

jing.liu

Low ESR, high ripple current, long lifetime, small case size, AND of course low cost(!)... Very often engineers have to search for "perfect" capacitors solution for their designs.Panasonic has dedicated himself to providing such solution with its THT...
- 15 Jul 2013
Project case construction

billabott

Having purchased some of these DC POWER JACK 2.1MM ENCLOSED FRAME WITH SWITCH, I began to wonder how am I going to create the proper precise opening to insert and secure it to. Will someone point me in the right direction and the right terminolo...
- 15 Jul 2013