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
Sensing Mains with Mbed/Arduino
Using an off-ebay voltage alerter as a heating pump monitor on an MBED/Arduino.
Our home heating system sucks!
Partly it’s the up-to-temperature problem where centrally located thermostats register that all is well while some rooms are still cold – or vice versa and the boiler/furnace runs pointlessly.
Home Automation Server #2
I have now split up the various functions of my home automation server software and found a great replacement for the sonos API functionality that I’d previously developed.
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?
A PDF Editor for the Simple Stuff – rotate, delete, split and combine
This is a simple PDF Editor to just do the basic document manipulation on scanned docs like rotating and deleting pages + splitting and combining docs.
RFID Front Door Lock using Netduino
Opening the front door of our house using an Oyster (or similar) card.