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.

Voice Computing - Creating a Voice Driven User Interface

ipsdesigners

At the CEWIT 2013 Conference in October, I spoke about the challenges of developing an exclusively voice driven user interface. In preparation, I began by researching forecasts for the wearable computing market and I was amazed at how the forecasts w...
- 30 Dec 2013
Getting started with PiFace

e14 Contributor

I used to play with a Lego train set with BBC Basic on the BBC microcomputer 30 years ago and thought that I'd now like to do the same with the Raspberry Pi and the PiFace Digital interface. However, it all seems far more complicated than BBC Basic! ...
- 27 Dec 2013
PiFace Failed Hardware or.....

e14 Contributor

I have a PiFace which plays dead on my Rev 1 Pi. It is however seen as installed by an earlier version of emulator but that's it. Does the software look for the Rev of the Pi and then change its use of the GPIO pins. I don't know if I should buy anot...
- 27 Dec 2013
Infinite RGB LED Cube Table Part 1

benmatrix

After being inspired from the Xmas tree blog post I started looking around at what other people were doing and I came across a simple single colour 8 x 8 x 8 LED Cube project on Instructables. LED Cube 8x8x8 The post was great and looked si...
- 20 Dec 2013
A HUGE Discount for this special season!

e14 Contributor

In respect to this holiday season, we have reduced the price of our Chronos Watch (z430-CHRONOS-868) by over 50% You will be able to obtain this watch that was ranked in the Top 10 Watches of 2013 by Forbes; using the promo code "MSP_Holida...
- 19 Dec 2013
Unbelievable Life Sized Lego Car - Runs on AIR!

Stuartsjones

The web is rightfully ablaze after this Lego project surfaced showing a teenage "Genuis" from Romania's life sized Lego car that runs on compressed air. The video of the working engine really is a thing of beauty. Enjoy! More at ht...
- 19 Dec 2013
Want to see Farnell-element 14's stock of TI Products and Solutions?

e14 Contributor

Head over to the Holiday Calendar today to see a full range of stocked products & Solutions by Farnell-element 14! www.ti.com/calendar-sm
- 18 Dec 2013
FPGA and Verilog: Beginner's View

mraureliusr

I ended up getting a Spartan 3E development board. It came with all sorts of cool peripherals... now I just have to start learning more Verilog! I really need to get a book or something, the online resources are fairly good but I need simple designs ...
- 17 Dec 2013
Don’t Waste Your Time Looking for New Clients!

ipsdesigners

Photo Credit Time Management NinjaWhat if you never had to think about where your next customer was coming from? What if you could simply turn the business development faucet to “ON” and release a steady stream of new revenues? Not very realistic, bu...
- 17 Dec 2013
A Synthesizer for Christmas - Stop Motion Video by Amber Navarro

Stuartsjones

"I don't want a GI Joe, Jingle Bells, or mistletoe... All I want is a synthesizer for Christmas!" AMEN! https://vimeo.com/81973720 www.twitter.com/stuartsjones
- 17 Dec 2013
InstaSPIN–FOC™︎ is the ideal sensorless, complete solution for spinning your motor!

e14 Contributor

Check out why InstaSPIN–FOC™︎ by Texas Instruments is the ideal sensorless, complete solution for spinning your motor. Easy to use, inexpensive, high performance, and sustainable! You can identify, tune and fully control through variable speeds and lo...
- 17 Dec 2013
Frozen Electronics

mraureliusr

This is just a quick post to announce over here my new video blog. It's called Frozen Electronics, so named because I live up here in the freezing Canadian climate. I am excited to be producing new content - I was recently chosen as a RoadTest r...
- 16 Dec 2013
Google Visualisations displays data over Ethernet from Arduino

neilk

I came across this article by chance: http://fermentationriot.com/arduinopid.php The article describes a very sophisticated Arduino data collection and display system for a home brewing setup.The data display, in a browser window, interested me...
- 15 Dec 2013
Python code tutorial How to convert a .ui file form PyQt to a .py file

afoste12

www.youtube.com/watch I didn't find a very good explantation of how to convert a .ui file to .py I just kept getting errors. If you have...
- 13 Dec 2013
One day offer! Head over to the Calendar before the day ends!!

e14 Contributor

The surprise in the calendar today is extra special, as it's a FREE give-away of something cool! This picture will give you a hint! But, head over to www.ti.com/calendar-sm and claim yours before the day ends!
- 12 Dec 2013
Recherche de pièces

Qtroniks

Le plus difficile quand tu es hobbist c'est d'avoir la ressource nessaire en pièces détaché et être ordonné dans tout son foullis.Si vous avez de la place au plafond de votre garage une bonne idée est d'y installer des "rail" de bois pour y glisser d...
- 10 Dec 2013
The 14 Essential Qualities of an Executive – in 1922.

ipsdesigners

Professional Engineer Magazine recently referenced this 1922 chart “Essential Qualities of an Executive.”For starters, some of the words here definitely sound odd to us in 2013 – e.g. does anyone still use the word ‘industry’ to describe perseverance...
- 9 Dec 2013
back to the project, successes and frustrations.

funinalaska

So I had some time off work and I decided to get back to my weather project.So far I have incorporated this hardware: Arduino Mega 2560 Arduiino W5100 Ethernet Shield with micro SD card slot ...
- 8 Dec 2013
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e14 Contributor
- 8 Dec 2013
Smart Life Challenge: Video de GeoCar (Español)

camuyano

Aqui subo un video de como va mi proyecto del GeoCar. Si no conoces mi proyecto es parte del Smart Life Challenge de Cypress y en element14 estan todos mis post sobre el proyecto.Todos los blog post han sido en ingles, en este lo escribo en español p...
- 7 Dec 2013
LED Xmas Tree Project using Flowcode 6

benmatrix

I wanted to create a simple project that could be followed at home to celebrate this festive time of year. As I had some spare PIC16F88 devices lying around I decided to use one of these to create a LED Xmas tree.The 16F88 has an inbuilt internal osc...
- 6 Dec 2013
Texas Instruments Surprise Calendar:

e14 Contributor

Introducing the Texas Instruments Calendar, available from December 1st-24th! Count down to the holidays with us by returning every day for a new surprise!www.ti.com/calendar-sm
- 3 Dec 2013
GertDuino Facebook Giveaway

e14 Contributor

This competition is run by Premier Farnell plc (Premier Farnell or we (including our or us) on the following terms and conditions. Anyone who enters this competition is referred to in these terms and conditions as entrant or you.In entering this comp...
- 2 Dec 2013
Ambient Backscatter and the Raspberry Pi

e14 Contributor

Hi all,I am starting a project to use Ambient Backscatter technology to record the temp and humidity of any building structure, I want to use the Raspberry to record the data, does any one have help, links to recording the small and quite weak signal...
- 2 Dec 2013
Hello element 14 and its members

rodreig89kishore

My name is P. Kishore Kumar.I stumbled upon this site by an accident but i think it was coincidence.I am a student of law but being focused on environment protection and solving regular problems with the cheapest sources providing the same outp...
- 1 Dec 2013