News & Updates
“VINTAGE” RADIO GETS A MODERN MAKEOVER
Taking an old piece of gear and cramming it full of modern hardware is a very popular project. In fa... Read more
Home Automation Projects
UW-Makeathon: Fully Automated Watering System
A simple application of cooling plate to copndence water from air Story General Idea: Our project is Fully Automated Watering System (FAWS). The ess... Read more
MATRIX ALEXA HOME AUTOMATION – MATRIX VOICE/CREATOR & RASPBERRY PI
So what all things we have now? A A Raspberry Pi, A MATRIX Voice, Alexa configured to work with MATRIX Voice and IFTTT. What to do next? How about som... Read more
Telemonitoring System With Raspberry Pi
Telemonitoring Telemonitoring is defined as the use of information technology to monitor patients at a distance. Telemonitoring allows reduction of... Read more
Octopod: Smart IoT Home/Industry Automation Project
Octopod, a uniquely shaped full automation system that allows you to monitor your industry and keep security with AI and smart RFID locks. Things used... Read more
Robotics - Automation Projects
Petoi Nybble
Hi there, This is Rongzhong from Pittsburgh. Eight months after my first post on OpenCat, I have quite a lot to update. Most importantly, I’m going to... Read more
Gesture Controlled Robot Using Raspberry Pi
Have you ever tired of controlling everything with buttons? Thought of controlling something with simple hand movements by sitting on your lazy couch?... Read more
LIVE CAMERA STREAMING RASPBERRY PI – MOTION SETUP
Raspberry Pi is a handy little computer that is used by hobbyists and techies all alike. Due to its compact size, powerful processor and less power co... Read more
Internet - Ethernet - LAN Projects
Accessing Raspberry Pi through SSH
SSH stands for Secure Shell. It is a secure channel created over an insecure network. The channel consists of a server and a client. This channel uses... Read more
Using Raspberry Pi through VNC
Contents 1 Setup VNC server on RaspberryPi 2 Accessing through VNC 3 To Automate the above Process on Boot Virtual Network Computing (VNC), is a graph... Read more
New Raspberry Pi model 3B+ 1.4 GHz, 330Mbit Ethernet, 802.11ac, PoE
It’s Pi day (if you do dates in the illogical MM/DD/YY format) so Raspberry Pi is releasing a new version of the Pi 3B. It’s called the 3B+, which is ... Read more
Getting started with Embedded Linux
Single board computers (SBCs) have been credited with rekindling an interest in electronics across all age groups, young and old. SBCs themselves have... Read more
Solar energy projects
Transform a 25-Watt Semi-Flexible Panel into a Practical Battery Charger
Sunlight may be free, but transforming it into usable electricity is not. I learned this back in 1965 when I bought some surplus silicon solar cells f... Read more
Solar Power, Weather and the Raspberry Pi
Solar Power, Weather and the Raspberry Pi SwitchDoc Labs is in the process of building a Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Weather Station. The design will... Read more
Solar Phone Charging Back Pack
Step 1: Materials and Tools Materials (1) backpack. There are 2 requirements when choosing a good backpack for this project: room to install your sola... Read more
Solar Powering My Home!
My home has been solar powered since June 2013 and the power system has proven its reliability. I’m a proud owner of an OFF GRID solar power sys... Read more
Medical - Health based Projects
UW-Makeathon: Gastric Cancer Screening Device
Low cost imaging and fluid sampling device for gastric adenocarcinoma screening. For East Asia with high prevalence and poor resources. Story Team and... Read more
CrowdFarming
A fully automated box with the sensors, switches, camera, and Messenger bot for growing lettuce. We’ve created a grow box for growing lettuce wi... Read more
UW-Makeathon: Space Auto Sorter for Sustaintability
Using visual recognition and machine learning for the sorting of potential 3D-printable materials in space. NASA OTW, Best Pr., Rookie, Isth Story As... Read more
Custom Canine Wheelchair
A friend needed a wheelchair for their French Bulldog at short notice. They were unable to afford the costly commercial wheelchairs available online.... Read more
Car Projects
Raspberry Pi Car HUD
Objective The goal of our project is to use the Raspberry Pi and create a touchscreen enabled Heads Up Display (HUD) for an automobile. The HUD would... Read more
M3 Pi: Raspberry Pi OBD-II Touchscreen Car Computer
Abstract There are a wide range of off-the-shelf OBD-II car computers available for purchase, but the majority of them are either prohibitively expens... Read more
Raspberry Pi Car HUD
Objective The goal of our project is to use the Raspberry Pi and create a touchscreen enabled Heads Up Display (HUD) for an automobile. The HUD would... Read more
