Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

Rug Warrior Pi: Life in 10 Hour Segments

alanmcdonley

I have tested my bot's battery life a few times in the last days to find the safe operating limit to avoid memory card corruption. RWPi Battery Life Tests Configuration ***: EBL 5000mAh Ni-MH C Batteries: $25 15Dec2014Raspberry Pi B+ 51...
- 18 Jun 2016
How I Enroll for a RoadTest - Part 4: Case for Programmable Electronic Load

Jan Cumps

The element14 roadtests are a great way to learn new things. Whenever I see a test that interests me, I enroll.Success is not guaranteed. I've been selected for some, not for others. In this series I'll explain how I decide to enroll or not.I'll also...
- 18 Jun 2016
LabVIEW Baby Steps

Jan Cumps

I have this plan to script an automated test setup. I want to check the behaviour of GaN power FETs.I'll need to control the input signals that drive the FETs, the load that the FETs see, and the measurement instruments.To make this possible, I b...
- 15 Jun 2016
Rug Warrior Pi: Up alone all night

alanmcdonley

There is a natural anthropomorphism that happens when I spend a lot of time programming a robot. At first it is a just a bunch of hardware with no "life", but eventually I start to feel squeamish about issuing the shutdown command, like I am cheating...
- 15 Jun 2016
Home Automation System (ALBERTO) Tour | Episode -3 Kitchen Module

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watch
- 15 Jun 2016
Practical Fun with NetBIOS Name Service and Computer Browser Service (Part 2)

e14 Contributor

Part 2 -- Computer Browser ServiceThis article is a logical continuation of the previous one. This time around, I will give an introduction—again, with a few practical tricks—to how computers appear in the Windows Network window and why network neigh...
- 14 Jun 2016
Electrical Engineering Please - My robot needs a loving touch

alanmcdonley

My robot is "looking for love in all the wrong places" (occasionally). I need to find an electrical engineer to love him for some very brief moments. ( *Spikes* his hair just thinking about it. ) Some of the design parameters of my 16 year old R...
- 14 Jun 2016
Home Automation System (ALBERTO) Tour | Episode -2 Main Module

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watch Twitter: @oksbwn25Channel : http://www.weargenius.in/YouTubeSubscribe: http://www.weargenius.in/subscribe
- 13 Jun 2016
Home Automation System (ALBERTO) Tour | Episode -1 Door Module

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watch Twitter: @oksbwn25Channel : http://www.weargenius.in/YouTubeSubscribe: http://www.weargenius.in/subscribe
- 11 Jun 2016
And then there were bumpers - don't forget the pull-ups!

alanmcdonley

I feel so elated to report I figured out my bumper problem. I had designed the connections to be active low using the internal pull-ups of the MCP23S17 but forgot this during my time away from my bot. I used the (private/unsupported) PDALib.setD...
- 10 Jun 2016
RugWarriorPi Progress and setback

alanmcdonley

Last night was a mix of up and down emotions for me. I wrote a python program to set all the Pi Droid Alpha digital I/o pins to input, and loop printing their values to my ssh console. Every Python program feels like a great personal success right no...
- 9 Jun 2016
Practical Fun with NetBIOS Name Service and Computer Browser Service

e14 Contributor

Part 1 – NetBIOS NamesNetBIOS is one of those legacy networking protocol suites that is still widely used. Don’t get the wrong idea about the “legacy” part, by the way. “Legacy” doesn’t always mean “old”—NetBIOS is actually more than ten years younge...
- 9 Jun 2016
Arduino | Getting Started

oksbwn

Guys this is a uncut Video of my room Tour without Audio and all. I am going to upload the edited one ASAP. Meanwhile please share your opinions and subscribe if you like my Video....Twitter: @oksbwn25Channel : http://www.weargenius.in/YouTubeS...
- 9 Jun 2016
DEVELOPED T5 (2100LM) @ $4.5

e14 Contributor

Hi guys I have developed a good quality T5 tube at very low cost only 4.5 usd.The lumen output is 2100 Lm and wattage is 20wThe led driver used has over voltage protection and works from 85v to 265v.The housing used is also aluminum housing for bette...
- 8 Jun 2016
Financial Times: Global Souls to Run Global Company - Human Capital Alliance Inc.

e14 Contributor

William Barnes, Financial Times Managers at international businesses must expect to move country regularly. Could this help create a class of cosmopolitan, constantly mobile workers? Nick Leeson, the legendary destroyer of the 233-year-old ...
- 8 Jun 2016
Home Automation System Tour (March-2016)- Uncut Video (No Audio)

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watch Guys this is a uncut Video of my room Tour without Audio and all. I am going to upload the edited one ASAP. Meanwhile please share your opinions and subscribe if you like my Video....Twitter: @oksbwn25Channel : http:/...
- 8 Jun 2016
Entrepreneurship: Engine for Asia’s Growth by Human Capital Alliance

e14 Contributor

The Stock Exchange of Thailand and Human Capital Alliance will be sponsoring a special “Entrepreneurship: Engine for Asia’s Growth” presentation at the SET auditorium on Thursday, March 23 from 9:30 am until noon. This exciting event is being he...
- 8 Jun 2016
At risk and underprivileged youth in North Fort Myers

e14 Contributor

I am currently working on a program to help at risk and underprivileged youth in the Suncoast area of North Fort Myers. I am funding this program with my own capital as of now and am looking for any donationations of new/used computer items specially...
- 7 Jun 2016
XAMPP | Make own Local Server

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watch
- 7 Jun 2016
TI C2000 Launchpad TMS320F28069: Gravity Meter - Matlab

martinvalencia

Accelerometer: An accelerometer is a device that measures proper acceleration ("g-force"). Proper acceleration is not the same as coordinate acceleration (rate of change of velocity). For example, an accelerometer at rest on the surfac...
- 6 Jun 2016
Posted: Alan's Pi 3 Road Test Using CMU PocketSphinx Speech Recognition

alanmcdonley

The Review is posted: https://www.element14.com/community/roadTestReviews/2166/l/roadtest-review-a-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-review Short Link: https://goo.gl/RrGgCm The Video (2m 30s) is posted: https://vimeo.com/169445418
- 5 Jun 2016
My Raspberry Pi Project Using PS4

e14 Contributor

This is a project I made Using a Raspberry Pi, a PS4 case/shell and a few other things.The Pi will be used as a media center and took around 1 week to complete.If you would like to see pictures then Email me adamgreen99@live.co.uk Tell me you would l...
- 5 Jun 2016
7" touchscreen

e14 Contributor

I am a new be, what are the 4 wires for and what do I hook them to?Is the ribbon cable the only hook-up I need?
- 4 Jun 2016
Arduino | Tutorial 2 | All About GPIO

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watch
- 3 Jun 2016
Home Automation Tour | Episode 4 Bathroom Module

oksbwn

www.youtube.com/watch
- 2 Jun 2016