Story How to build cheap and easy data dashboards for your startup Ever since we moved to our shiny new offices in Holborn we longed to have zero-maintenance always-on dashboards showing interesting stats on every aspect of the company. Initially we tried a spare Mac Mini, which was a disappointment — it took up lots of space …
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Project Background We used Raspberry Pi 2, Azure, Oxford Project and Wechat to realize the following process. Using Face Detection SDK based on Windows 10 IoT core to detect whether there is a human face in our camera, then uploads the capture of human face to the Azure website. Then we use the background platform …
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Story The Raspberry Pi Zero W The worst thing about all of the information on the WWW is trying to sort through the noise to find the specifics for your immediate need. And there is a lots of noise out there in Internet Land around the Raspberry Pi Zero W. If you think you are …
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Building and playing with robots is my main guilty pleasure in life. Others play golf or ski, but I build robots (since I can’t play golf or ski :-). I find it relaxing and fun! To make most of my bots, I use chassis kits. Using kits helps me do what I like doing more, …
Story The following article was originally published in my blog. In Gothenburg we are fortunate enough to have the local public transportation company, Västtrafik, maintaining its live schedule online and providing public API for whoever needs to query it for their own applications. Consequently, there are plenty mobile solutions that provide access to the schedule, …
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FriendlyElec’s latest single-board computer looks like a Raspberry Pi 3 and has a lot of the same features, including a 40-pin header, WiFi, and a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor. But while the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ uses a 1.4 GHz Broadcom BCM2837 system-on-a-chip, FriendlyElec’s NanoPi K1 Plus has a 1.3 GHz Allwinner H5 ARM processor …
Hey World! I love traveling. But I don’t like stopping to take pictures. But I STILL want pictures. So I decided to make my own Personal Automated GPS Controlled Portable Photo Taker! I created a backpack that takes pictures when I am close to places that I’ve pre-selected. And what better place to test it …
This is a fun project that shows how to control a smart light bulb (Yeelight Blue) that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to change its color with Raspberry Pi! bulb recently at a local store and was intrigued by its Bluetooth-based control and relatively low price (for a ‘smart’ gadget at least). Because the light …
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Hello again. Today I am going to show an ongoing project I am working on. My company has bestowed upon me the pleasure to build a demo kit for one of our product lines. I work in the low voltage industry that includes fire alarm, security, video surveillance and structured cable (voice and data). While …
Over the weekend I sat down and built a small Raspberry Pi cluster consisting of 4 nodes. I used three Raspberry Pi 2 boards for compute nodes and an original Model B for the head node. I wanted the cluster — more commonly known as a ‘bramble’ — to be as compact as possible, with …
