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Element 14 Christmas Project - IoTree

biglesp

With Christmas almost upon us it’s time for our annual Element 14 Christmas Project. Last year we built a Santa Trap that used a Raspberry Pi and camera to photograph Santa as he delivers presents around the globe.www.youtube.com/watchFor 2015 we are...
- 21 Nov 2015
Wrap it up (Sort of) : Finishing the Foginator 2000

pettitda

Last time I had determined that the long ribbon cable was too long to fit into the box. So, I ordered a GPIO header with longer pins for the sense hat and a smaller ribbon cable with a 40 pin connector on one end and a 26 pin header on the othe...
- 16 Nov 2015
Assembly Part 2: Finishing the Foginator 2000

pettitda

I finished up my last blog post by installing the relay board on my PermaProto board. Next, I needed to assemble the level shifter board. I say assemble, but all that's required is to solder the single row headers to the board. &n...
- 10 Nov 2015
Where R U? - #1 Introduction

Former Member

OverviewTransportation is an essential part of our daily life especially for college students. Going from point A to point B without any hassle is always a must. However, if you are in a university that has over 66,000 students spanning across five d...
- 7 Nov 2015
Animated_Grim Blog:7 - Pi and Face Detection [Or Anything you want to find]

m.ratcliffe

OpenCV is an amazing piece of software and the newer Pi's are getting the power to run real time image processing tasks, like face detection. www.youtube.com/watch However, OpenCv is not that user friendly, Lets make an at...
- 6 Nov 2015
Animated_Grim Blog:6 - Wiring diagram and the skull

m.ratcliffe

The skull is controlled by three servo's giving it three degree's of freedom, it also has Led's in the eyes to add a dramatic effect [see the later blogs] Degree's of freedom:>Up/down>Pan [side to side]>Head Tilt www.youtube.com/wa...
- 6 Nov 2015
Step by Step Build Trick or Trivia Halloween Candy Dispenser #5 - Build Audio Amplifier

cmelement14

Unfortunately I couldn't finish the project before Halloween because I moved recently and didn't bring the right tools with me. However, I will continue the build and blogs. Different from my last blog Step by Step Build Trick or Trivia Hallo...
- 2 Nov 2015
Assembly Part 1: Building the Foginator 2000

pettitda

As I went about thinking on how to assemble the circuitry together to make a presentable project, I wasn't too happy with the idea of using the extended pin header for attaching the sensor board. However, I found that the GPIO connector on ...
- 2 Nov 2015
RPi Haunted Foginator turned to RPi Haunted Halloween. :-)

jkutzsch

Wrap up time! Sadly after cleaning, and testing and checking everything with my old foginator, it started having intermittent problems. Sometimes it would work, sometimes, nothing.Not having enough time to get a new one I changed over the ...
- 2 Nov 2015
My Foginator 2000

Former Member

It all works nicely, as of this afternoon. I simplified the audio because I did not get my Raspberry Pi audio cable ready. With as many Raspberry Pi B+ and newer that have been sold, I wonder why someone does not build audio ...
- 1 Nov 2015
Candi D Spencer and Wishing Hell update (Blog #7)

dwinhold

Well, halloween is basically over and it was a successful letdown. It poured rain tonight, we had about 6 kids. The kids liked the candy dispenser but loved the Wishing Hell. The dispencer had to be setup inside our (small) doorway, the Wishing Hell ...
- 1 Nov 2015
Pi in the Face: Demonstration

screamingtiger

Previous posts for this project here:http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi_projects/blog/tags#/?tags=pieintheface Here is a demonstration of my final product. I will be making another post after Halloween to...
- 31 Oct 2015
Animated_Grim Blog:5 - Halloween is upon us

m.ratcliffe

To keep people upto date: The Animated grim has just been setup outside and it is epic! I have been mad busy making the thing after breaking a few parts. I will be blogging about the build early next week. Goodluck with the projects guys, ...
- 31 Oct 2015
Foginator 2000: #006 Final Assembly and Testing

CharlesGantt

Welcome back to Project: Foginator 20000! In this installment we are going begin wrapping the build up by moving everything from the breadboard, to a prototyping PCB, and then placing it all into an enclosure. Then we will wrap everything...
- 31 Oct 2015
Project basics are up(aka part 4 of my project assembly)

Former Member

I added startup for all the main pieces. On both Pis, this meant adding a line to near the bottom of /etc/rc.local. The line goes just above the exit line you see at the bottom. Here is what I added: sh /root/start_watching.s...
- 31 Oct 2015
Candi D Spencer with the Wishing Hell almost done videos (Blog post #5)

dwinhold

With Halloween tomorrow we be everyone is doing the last minute touches to their project. Chrystal and I had so much fun doing this we want to make it a tradition. Below is video of the dispenser and the Wishing Hell, hope you enjoy. Sorry in advance...
- 31 Oct 2015
Raspberry Pi B+ can do double duty and more

Former Member

As I mentioned last time, I added a Raspberry Pi B+ to the project, basically to take advantage of its GPIO pins. Today, I was going to start interfacing the Arduino , which is driving the Neopixel stick. I had read that there was ...
- 31 Oct 2015
Exterminate! Operational Halloween Pumpkin Dalek Using NodeRed and a Pi

Former Member

#ShareTheScare this HalloweenVisit our Halloween space and find out how to win one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. There are two ways to win:Build and document your past or present Halloween projects.Tweet your best engineering spook with #ShareT...
- 30 Oct 2015
Pi in the Face: Python Code

screamingtiger

Previous posts for this project here:http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi_projects/blog/tags#/?tags=pieintheface I have the following functionality:Load up images in a specific structureLoad up sounds in a specif...
- 30 Oct 2015
Foginator 2000 parts arrived

Former Member

I got a box of nice parts to build my copy of the Foginator 2000 My biggest confusion was what to do about the other parts I would need. I did not know if they were arriving seperately or whether I needed to order them. As tim...
- 30 Oct 2015
testing workaround for Foginator 2000 PIR

Former Member

This is my second blog entry about this project. I must have saved the first one to the wrong area on Element14, and I'll work on moving it after I finish this entry. As I mentioned in part 1, I could not get the special pin extend...
- 30 Oct 2015
Halloween Electric Chair Prop using Raspberry PI GPIO

Former Member

#ShareTheScare this HalloweenVisit our Halloween space and find out how to win one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. There are two ways to win:Build and document your past or present Halloween projects.Tweet your best engineering spook with #ShareT...
- 29 Oct 2015
Switch My Fogger: Building a relay board for the Foginator 2000

pettitda

As I read through Charles Gantt's blogs on the Foginator 2000, I saw that he used an off the shelf relay board to switch the fogger on and off. However, I didn't want to spend the money when I could just as easily create my own relay bo...
- 29 Oct 2015
Pi in the Faced Pumpkin - Blinking Eyes and Construction

screamingtiger

Previous posts for this project here:http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi_projects/blog/tags#/?tags=pieintheface My current progress: www.youtube.com/watch Eyes are blinking, mouth is talking, and...
- 29 Oct 2015
Candi D Spencer is almost ready (Blog #5)

dwinhold

Hello everyone,Candi is almost ready to give to children. Tombstone is done, programming is 95% complete, treats are bought, infinity wishing well is almost complete. We have been very busy. We decided to have the children pick a ghost or ghoul to ra...
- 29 Oct 2015