A variant of PacMan for the Spidey Wall – please try it out
Spidey Wall
The Spidey Wall is intended to evoke Spider-Man’s costume and contains almost 2000 individually addressable coloured LEDs
Bluetooth Smart Target (Game)
Chris Greening (@mrbananas) has been working on an exciting project to bring web UIs to IoT devices – more about this later. He has been up to stay with us in Edinburgh for a few days and we’ve been working on a small demonstrator for his tech. We decided to build a BLE target suitable for a hacky sack throwing …
Does a Raspberry Pi need a UPS to avoid SD card corruption?
In the past I’ve had trouble with corrupted SD cards when power was removed from a Raspberry Pi without shutting down the OS. But this failed attempt to build a UPS for the Pi has, as a side effect, tested powering down and back up over 50 times without a single failure. So are SD corruptions a thing of the past?
Laser Cut Minecraft Elements in Perspex
A Rhino3D Python script to create a Minecraft Element in Perspex
RFID Front Door Lock using Netduino
Opening the front door of our house using an Oyster (or similar) card.
.NET Micro Framework Web Server Unreliability
I have built a couple of home-automation devices using the Netduino Plus 2 and, until fairly recently, was pretty happy with them. Certainly the process of development using the .Net MicroFramework is really excellent – it is nothing short of miraculous to be able to debug embedded code in a desktop environment. BUT neither of the devices was totally reliable …
Building a PhoneGap/Cordova Home Automation App
a PhoneGap app developed for the wall-tablet in my house