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Energenie Experiments – Remote Power Control for the Home

shabaz

IntroductionThere is a remote power control solutionremote power control solution for home use by a company called Energenie, that provides radio-controlled mains socket adapters for UK use. These are intended for use with small radio-controlled hand...
- 19 Nov 2014
How to make a better Pi

tekmeister

It was back in 2011, I can't recall exactly when, but I came across this board called the Raspberry Pi on one of the myriad of tech blogs I frequent. I do remember getting quite excited, mostly due to the low cost. I shared the details with my work c...
- 17 Nov 2014
A Clash of Architectures: ARM vs. x86

GardenState

Decisions made during design processes shape the possibilities of success and failure of a component, sub-system or end product. Much of the time these choices are not clear cut and few reside in the proverbial “no brainer” category. For the de...
- 5 Nov 2014
God bless you

Former Member

I have small project in class .I plan to build control home system in order to control 4 or 5 functions in a home ( TV, AC, Light, Modem and Fan) using Arduino processor , and connect them to mobile phone (Android).not real project but prototyp...
- 3 Nov 2014
Workshop RiOT and Freedom boards during Freescale DWF event in Paris (France), October 14th 2014

FreescaleTools_and_Software

Dear Microcontroller and Microprocessor users 1. You are looking for some training to learn programming your RiOTboard (i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9) or your Freedom board (Kinetis ARM Cortex-M0+/M4) ?2. You are able to come to Paris, France to visit us ...
- 9 Sep 2014
Parallax releases their Propeller 1 MCU into a fully open-source platform

Catwell

Parallax goes open source with both hardware and software for the Propeller 1 MCU (via Parallax)Parallax has followed suit with the likes of LEON, OpenRISC and LowRISC by making their octo-core MCU Propeller 1 SoC open source for both the hardware an...
- 21 Aug 2014
Student devises way to control BeagleBone using an Android phone

Catwell

One student out of India is looking to get extra credit with a concept that he believes will change the way people interact with microcomputers. Praveen Kumar Pendyala is developing a way to directly program the BeagleBone Linux microcomputer using a...
- 8 Aug 2014
Pocket NC – 5 axis CNC milling with BeagleBone

Catwell

Pocket NC P5 five-axis CNC milling machine (via Pocket NC) Sure, 3D printers are cool, but don’t forget about traditional machining. If CNC milling machines are your fancy, keep an eye out for the Pocket NC P5, a BeagleBone-powered five-axis des...
- 8 Aug 2014
Building a Brewery Using an OLinuXino

oneleggedredcow

IntroductionThis post is going to show you how to build an automated three tier brewing system using the OLinuXino. Our aim is to control the temperature of every step of the brewing process and make it easy to brew a batch of beer. This system...
- 18 Jul 2014
Remote Programming Connection to OLinuXino A13

oneleggedredcow

In this article, I’m going to show you how to set up the Aptana Studio 3 IDE to remotely sync your code with the OLinuXino. This allows you to program on your desktop in a nice IDE, automatically transfer the files, and run the code on your OLi...
- 30 Jun 2014
Give Yourself More Memory by Temporarily Increasing Swap Size

oneleggedredcow

Sometimes you run across a situation where you want some more memory (RAM) to complete an operation. An example of this that I ran into was trying to compile something and gcc kept running out of memory. One way to fix this is to temporarily al...
- 30 Jun 2014
Check out MotherBone PiOne for BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi on Kickstarter!!

Former Member

MotherBone PiOne is a new type of super I/O 'cape' in the form of an industrial 3.5" motherboard for BeagleBone Black. It can also use Raspberry Pi Simultaneously! Check it out on kickstarter right now!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/53239...
- 30 Apr 2014
Using OLinuXino A13 for Sous Vide Cooking

oneleggedredcow

IntroductionSous-vide is a way to cook food so that the item is cooked evenly throughout and exactly at the desired temperature. The way that sous vide achieves this is by putting the item in a plastic bag and then placing it in water that is h...
- 30 Apr 2014
Intel’s SD-sized Edison PC will be slightly larger than expected

Catwell

Intel Edison PC – the size of an SD card, only bigger (via INTEL)Intel made headlines in January when it promised the delivery of an SD card-sized personal computer at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show. The company, however, recently admitted that t...
- 28 Apr 2014
SDR and SBC: Cheap thrills with radio waves

fustini

www.youtube.com/watchI recently gave a presentation on Software Defined Radio (SDR) at my hackerspace in Chicago, Pumping Station: One. I've attached the slides to this blog post for reference. After the talk, someone told me they had see...
- 7 Apr 2014
BeagleBone Black educational resources

fustini

A friend recently asked me about what educational resources there are for engineering students. These are resources that came to mind. I'd appreciate any additional suggestions! The Beaglebone for Embedded Linux Development | derekmo...
- 3 Apr 2014
Track Your Workout Reps with OLinuXino

oneleggedredcow

Overview I’m one of those people who enjoys working out. However, I never seem to be able to remember how many times I've done an exercise. This is especially true with things like jumping jacks, where you are doing a lot of repetitions.&n...
- 19 Mar 2014
Getting Started with the OLinuXino A13

oneleggedredcow

Getting an OS The first step is to download an OS for your OLinuXinoOLinuXino. There are a couple of options given on the olimex wiki. The debian image seems pretty popular and works well, so if you aren’t sure which one to pick; tha...
- 19 Mar 2014
Single-board computers are a game-changer. Here's why.

Catwell

The realization was in college. I built a perfect 555 timer circuit on a university lab breadboard – the square wave was perfect. A geometric perfection that would make Mies van der Rohe proud. Begrudgingly, I had to transfer it to a portable board, ...
- 18 Feb 2014
The Dark Side of Devkits and Single-board Computers

GardenState

Only a spoilsport would say so, but contrary to widespread belief devkits and single-boards, while useful, are not the Holy Grail that the time-strapped design engineer is searching for. And while it is true that they have become an important part of...
- 18 Feb 2014
Tango looks to release powerful micro-PC through crowd funding

Catwell

Tango micro-pc. (via indiegogo)Tired of having all those desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones and gaming consoles cluttering up valuable space? Then perhaps Tango’s powerful micro-PC is the answer, which is purported to be the world’s most ‘...
- 14 Jan 2014
Touch Board Allows for Interactivity Everywhere by Turning Almost Anything into a Sensor

Catwell

Bare Conductive’s Touch Board. (via kickstarter)Companies have been developing and releasing devices that allow users to use just about any surface as a touch interface. Whether it’s through capacitive, resistive, optical, wave or force implementatio...
- 27 Nov 2013
A-13 OlinuXino: Just another development board?

Catwell

OlinuXino in the flesh. 5.25" at it's widest. Five and a quarter floppies have nothing on this board... (via Cabe) Within the last couple years development boards have been spreading like wildfire. It seems that every other week there is a new o...
- 19 Sep 2013
Electrical engineers continue to adopt single-board computers as a critical component

Catwell

Single board computers (SBCs) have been around for longer you may think. When they were first introduced they were running off the classic Intel C8080A processor. This was more than 30 years ago (late 1970s). Today these boards play a crucial role in...
- 18 Sep 2013
GamingCape utilizes BeagleBone Black for handheld gaming emulator

Catwell

Max Thrun's GamingCape. Time to outfit it with a higher resolution screen. (via Bear24rw) Handheld gaming systems have been on the market for almost 35 years since Milton Bradley released the Microvision game console (first to use intercha...
- 8 Aug 2013