A Reliable MBED WebServer

I’ve had several goes at making a fast and reliable web server for MBED. Now I think I have finally cracked it!

Spidey Wall Animation

This is a guest post from fellow LED fan Rupert Rawnsley who has developed a great animation

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?