My inspiration I love cooking and always wanted to have my own garden with different herbs. But there was one issue: I always screw up my plants. Tried many times – same result. They die faster than I realize I need to water them. So I started to think – how can I automate this […]
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Story This project was made for extra credit in my measurement and instrumentation class but I also wanted it to be something that I would get some use out of. This allows me to make sure nobody has been into my apartment when I am out of town. This code is only set up to
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Ultrasonic Sonar HC-SR04 is a commonly used module for non-contact distance measurement for distances from 2cm to 400cm. It uses sonar (like bats and dolphins) to measure distance with high accuracy and stable readings. It consists of an ultrasonic transmitter, receiver and control circuit. The transmitter transmits short bursts which gets reflected by target and
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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, Read More »
