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What's your next project?

bradhuffman

What's everyone working on?  I've got a few things on the drawing board at the moment.

 

  1. Take the rocket launch controller from a prototyped stage to a more completed stage with a custom PCB that integrates all the distinct components.
  2. For the .NET crowd, migrate the code to the .NET Micro Framework.
  3. Experiment with controlling my Roomba with either the Arduino or a .NET MF compatible board (Netduino, Fez Panda/Domino, etc...)

 

Those are a couple things that I'm looking to do over the next month or two.  How about you?

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  • Good to see a thread like this!  We have a similar periodic thread on my hackerspace's mailing list and it is fun to see what everyone is making.

     

    I've been working on an Arduino-based device that I can stick on my cube wall to display my status (in meeting, at lunch, working from home, etc).  A 4x20 parallel LCD (reflective STN with backlight off) is the display with the SparkFun WiFly shield for connectivity.  The process is pretty simple: fetch a status message from a web server for the device's configured ID and display it on the LCD.  The server-side software can be updated via various mechanisms like Twitter.

     

    However, as always, the devil is in the details.  I wanted to maximize battery life to hopefully last a work week, so sleeping is must.  In theory, it should have been simple to associate, connect, sleep, wake and repeat.  But in practice I found the WiFly library code would fail to recover in many circumstances.  Often, I wouldn't observe this until after many iterations which made troubleshooting time-consuming.

     

    Anyways, I think I'm finally getting close to having improved the library well enough for robust operation.  Hopefully after the long Thanksgiving weekend, I'll be able to do a successful test run in the office.

     

    Cheers,

    Drew

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  • Good to see a thread like this!  We have a similar periodic thread on my hackerspace's mailing list and it is fun to see what everyone is making.

     

    I've been working on an Arduino-based device that I can stick on my cube wall to display my status (in meeting, at lunch, working from home, etc).  A 4x20 parallel LCD (reflective STN with backlight off) is the display with the SparkFun WiFly shield for connectivity.  The process is pretty simple: fetch a status message from a web server for the device's configured ID and display it on the LCD.  The server-side software can be updated via various mechanisms like Twitter.

     

    However, as always, the devil is in the details.  I wanted to maximize battery life to hopefully last a work week, so sleeping is must.  In theory, it should have been simple to associate, connect, sleep, wake and repeat.  But in practice I found the WiFly library code would fail to recover in many circumstances.  Often, I wouldn't observe this until after many iterations which made troubleshooting time-consuming.

     

    Anyways, I think I'm finally getting close to having improved the library well enough for robust operation.  Hopefully after the long Thanksgiving weekend, I'll be able to do a successful test run in the office.

     

    Cheers,

    Drew

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