Legacy Personal Blogs

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A Small Simple Robot Arm : Part 2 Initial Software Implementation

dubbie

Having constructed the small 4 degree of freedom (4 DOF) plastic robot arm, similar to the MeArm, ( A Small Simple Robot Arm : Part 1 Mechanical Construction ) I have now added a Nano controller and some simple software. players.brig...
- 31 Jan 2020
Artificial Intelligence: Education

davidlockett

The concept of AI is more intuitive for today’s students than for previous generations, as students have grown up relying on AI in an age where the Internet is ubiquitous. Students are using web-connected devices like smartphones and Chromebooks regu...
- 30 Jan 2020
Testing 2020-1own

rachfasi

Testing 2020-12020-1
- 29 Jan 2020
8 Legged Walking Robot Kit : Construction and Playing

dubbie

Christmas may have passed but the presents still linger on. One of my Christmas presents (admittedly to myself) was an 8 legged walking robot. I have a great interest in walking robots and hope one day to have a whole herd of them. This is one of the...
- 28 Jan 2020
Micrium's µC/ Software Moves to Open-Source Licensing

jomoenginer

Perhaps a sign of the times, but Micrium, the makers of the uC/ RTOS will be moving their code base to an Open Source license model. The uC/ OS has been a staple in many stable environments including the Mars Curiosity Rover Platform and now it ...
- 27 Jan 2020
Tektronix 3 Series MDO - RoadTest Application

three-phase

This is a copy of the technical aspects of my RoadTest application for the 3 Series MDO. For comparison, I have also added in the application I made for the Rohde and Schwarz RTM3K-COM4, that I failed to win. You will see that the applications f...
- 25 Jan 2020
Change of name

Fred27

I just changed my name (From David Murphy to Fred Murphy) in my profile and thought I'd head off any potential confusion with a blog post. Nothing too strange going on. Both are me. David's my actual name although most people (even my wife and k...
- 22 Jan 2020
Raspberry Pi Poker Player

ddoherty

IntroductionAs a self-proclaimed Raspberry Pi and Texas hold’em nerd, I decided to build a Raspberry Pi Poker Player to bring with me to games to help make smart bets. Here is a video of it in action. The poker player performs 3 main steps: (1)...
- 22 Jan 2020
A Small Simple Robot Arm : Part 1 Mechanical Construction

dubbie

I was impressed with the MeArm self-build small robot arm since I first encountered in quite a few years ago now. So much so that I had a simpler version designed for me when I was at the University which was only 3 degrees of freedom version and cou...
- 20 Jan 2020
'I am Hertz'

dubbie

Well, I made it to the next level in Element 14 and to paraphrase Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy, 'I am Hertz'! So I must now be a cycle, which is like frequency but on a different wavelength. Over time I will have to modulate my amplitude in...
- 19 Jan 2020
Nearly There!

dubbie

Sometime very soon I will reach the magical 100,000 points mark in the Element14 Community. Will there be a big fanfare with balloons falling from the ceiling? Will I suddenly become all-wise and all-knowing and know the answer to life, t...
- 18 Jan 2020
Arduino MKR adapter

bernhardmayer

This is just a dumb adapter to use Arduino Uno compatible shields with Arduino MKR. There also exists an official MKR2UNO Adapter (https://store.arduino.cc/mkr2uno-adapter ) but I didn't like its layout so I made may own. There are mainly two re...
- 14 Jan 2020
Open Source Outdoor Robot platform JECCbot mini

bernhardmayer

The JECCbot mini is an Open Source Outdoor Robotics platform which can be manufactured by a regular 3D printer. The whole project and source files and production files and description is available on github: https://github.com/generationma...
- 13 Jan 2020
MSP-430 progress

kc4zvw

Bought a MSP430FR6989 LaunchPad™︎ development kit about three month ago and between a book and a couple of online resources have made good progress in learning its periphal systems. Well except the ADC stuff! regards, David
- 8 Jan 2020
Glitch Storm MIDI Synth and applications in Child Psychology

cypresstwist

Holiday Special 19Enter Your Holiday Season Project for a Chance to Win Over $20,000 Worth of Prizes and Gifts to Give!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll As a Psychologist I'm always searching for new a...
- 5 Jan 2020
Install Linux on a Sonoff S20 smart plug

cypresstwist

This is a rewrite of an article I did for ”Linux Magazine”. Do you know those cheap Chinese smart plugs that you can turn on and off with the help of your smartphone? You can install Linux on them. Here's how. The ITEAD SONOFF S20 is a fairly ch...
- 2 Jan 2020
Powerful new SBC to Ease Development Challenges and Accelerate Innovations

prashanth.nagendrappa

Oftentimes, developing an end application is like a scary game of maze. One can easily get lost in its winding paths lined with unseen twists and obstacles. A wrong choice can lead you to start all over again, making the journey grim, and the goal ou...
- 2 Jan 2020
A White Robot Dancing Man

dubbie

One of my Christmas gifts I most liked (after the robot football players and another Tobbie walking robot) is this different dancing robot man obtained for me by my son from an exhibition he had attended. Now it is his turn to ask the exhibitors if h...
- 31 Dec 2019
Cleaning old scanned book pages with Linux BASH commands

cypresstwist

So I have this 13" Sony DPT-RP1 e-Reader that I use for reading studies and books. Some books I can't find online for free or are out of stock and I have to sometimes resort to The Internet Archive to borrow scanned copies of them in PDF for...
- 29 Dec 2019
Live face recognition with NVidia Jetson Nano using Facebook profile images as input

cypresstwist

I really like the NVidia Jetson Nano. 128 CUDA cores is a lot of power for an $89 small form factor computer. Especially given what you can do with it. I've bought mine for $99 from SeeedStudio (and without advertising for them - I see the price drop...
- 28 Dec 2019
Open LED Race how-to

cypresstwist

So I saw a video of Open LED Race in action and I liked it. Simple, enjoyable, cheap to make and something that would keep small kids entertained. I'm a Psychologist and some of my clients are less than 10 years old so in an effort to bond with them ...
- 27 Dec 2019
Bauble

jc2048

Recently, element14 was kind enough to send me a 'swag pack' which included a solderless breadboard. I wonderedwhat to do with it as a quick blog and then remembered a small and very simple experiment I had thought of some timeback and never tried.&n...
- 27 Dec 2019
New Person

phillips2438

Hello, I became interested in IoT stuff last year, but got side-tracked with a final research project at college. I graduated, but work is scarce in SW PA, so I divide my time between job applications, volunteer work with the Heinz History Center in ...
- 23 Dec 2019
Over the Air (OTA) Programming of ESP8266 - Part I

neilk

INTRODUCTION The following summary is taken from the the ESP8266 package documentation: https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ota_updates/...
- 22 Dec 2019
New Year Activities

dubbie

I know Christmas has not arrived yet but I was thinking about what I might do in the New Year (mainly as I still have not made my ATtiny85 Arduino Uno programmer yet and seem increasingly unlikely to before Christmas - so I might have to do it in the...
- 19 Dec 2019