This instructable is an adaptation of one of our blog posts. Before beginning, you’ll want to have a few things in place. You’ll need: A functioning Raspberry Pi (obviously). A separately powered USB hub, since the Raspberry Pi isn’t capable of delivering enough power on the USB ports to drive most Phidgets or other USB […]
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Step 1: Components needed An Arduino Yun (Wifi Enabled!) – You could use another Arduino with a Wifi Shield though. A Protoshield with (or without) a tiny breadboard a regular breadboard will work as well, but will be less compact. If you want to solder more, you can just use a small circuit board instead.
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I decided to use some Dynamixel AX-12A motors for a project, and ended up having to code a library for them, so I figured I would share what I learned. Despite being a bit more expensive, this motor has a couple of advantages over the more commonly found TowerPro motors. Mainly, the Dynamixel motors are
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Are you familiar with Arduino, but are looking for a little more connectivity in your projects? This Instructable goes over a new (and cheap) wireless module that has hit the embedded world hard – the ESP8266. This little module is a perfect way to hook your Arduino project into your WiFi. What you do with
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This instructable uses circuit knitting and is written specifically for knitters. We’ll cover how to create a circuit that uses blue and yellow LEDs, with instructions for hand and machine knitting. Electronic machine users can download the pattern file below to CNC print the knitting. (“Rose the Riveter” self-portrait with cuff by Angeleah Daidone. copyright
This will allow you to create a remote webcam for your Raspberry Pi so that you can view it from any computer on the local network. For this instructable you will need: • Raspberry Pi with an Whezzy Raspbian installed and internet connection established • Webcam (I use PS3 Eye Camera, but it will work
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One day I found myself in the need for a USB hub with an eternal power supply but when I went to a shop I verified they can be quite more expensive than the ones that don’t ha\ve external power supply. No big deal, “I’ll just by a cheap one and add the external power
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The goal of this tutorial is to help you begin programming with Python to control your Arduino robots with a Raspberry PI. We will go over the basics like installation and some simple examples to control your robot from a Python GUI from Raspberry PI. Step 1: Parts list In this tutorial we are going to use the following
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In this tutorial we will see how to use the serial port on Raspberry Pi. We will use the serial port available on Raspberry with a RS232/TTL 3-5,5V adapter and a USB-serial adapter. By default the Raspberry Pi’s serial port is configured to be used for console input/output. This can help to fix problems during
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This article demonstrates using SAMI with simple, off-the-shelf sensors and hardware. Specifically, we will be gathering climate data from a low-cost temperature sensor and relaying that data to the cloud via SAMI APIs. From there, we can analyze our collected data in real-time or historically. This autonomous combination of hardware, software and networking is now
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