Summary Someone at the university asked for advice on a low cost, “smart” security system. He wanted to monitor people entering his dorm room but he didn’t want a lot of false alarms since his roommate and friends were often in and out of his room when he wasn’t there. The solution – use facial …
BMP180 Windows IoT Project Lets Get Started! In this project, we will use Windows 10 IoT Core to get sensor readings from a BMP180 Digital Barometric Pressure Sensor over I2C bus. Its simple to get things running with the library provided. So lets get started! The Hardware. First of all we need to get acquainted …
Story As part of my entry for the Leap Motion #3D Jam, I was excited to build this wireless gesture controlled Search/Rescue Robot based on the Raspberry Pi. This project demonstrates and provides a minimalistic example of how wireless 3D hand gestures can be used to control and interact with physical stuff. Since this project …
Leap Motion Controlled Remote Search and Disposal Robot Continue Reading
ConnectTheDots will help you get tiny devices connected to Microsoft Azure, and to implement great IoT solutions taking advantage of Microsoft Azure advanced analytic services such as Azure Stream Analytics and Azure Machine Learning. This lab is stand-alone, but is used at Microsoft to accompany a presentation about Azure, Windows 10 IoT Core, and our …
Windows 10 IoT Core and Azure IoT Hubs : Hands-on Lab Continue Reading
Introduction Nothing annoys me more at work than finding all the conference rooms booked in the online scheduler but then walking around the building and finding a large percentage are actually unoccupied. If I were President, I would institute a policy where by people would lose vacation days if they didn’t cancel their conference room …
In this project we will use a Raspberry Pi 2 running Windows 10 IoT to monitor a PIR motion sensor that triggers a USB webcam to snap a picture and upload it to Microsoft Azure Storage using C#. Additionally, we’ll wire up an LED as a simple status indicator. We’ll also create a Microsoft Azure …
Motion Sensor Surveillance Camera using Azure Storage (C#) Continue Reading
I did not know a lot about autism and autistic children until I worked with them. I volunteered with autistic kids in an athletic program, and I learned a lot about autism. Individual autistic children are very unique and have different abilities physically, mentally, and emotionally. It is difficult to apply general therapeutic methods to …
Auti Bot: system for autistic kids to control their fine motor skills, Continue Reading
Currently I’m trying to make a working version of a radioactivity detector that uses semiconductor as a sensor. It’s a different approach than Geiger-Muller detectors or ionization chambers, more complicated, but also much more interesting. While Geiger-Muller counters can only provide information about the amount of particles in a period of time, semiconductor detectors can …
Silicon Labs, the leader in energy-friendly solutions for a smarter, more connected world, has been constantly making silicon, software and tools to help engineers transform industries and improve lives since 1996. Silicon Labs has just launched its newest development platform, The Thunderboard Sense Kit. Thunderboard Sense is a small and feature packed development platform for …
36$ Complete Sensor-to-Cloud Inspiration Kit Continue Reading
Introduction After experiencing both a new boiler AND a washing machine leak in the same weekend I searched online for a network connected water leak detector. I wanted a device I could integrate into my home automaton system so I could both continually monitor the status of the detector (battery level etc.) and receive notifications. …
Micropython leak detector with Adafruit and Home-assistant Continue Reading
