Spent this morning up at Exeter Library for the Raspberry Pi jam run by 2.times do. This month was really busy with lots of Pi’s, robots and other projects, learning and hacking going on. There is now an interactive art exhibit outside the Rougemont room a sort of musical instrument / technology combination. This…
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2. times do, workshop Torre Abbey
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My plans for summer volunteer work sadly fell flat. YMCA South Devon were not interested. I also contacted the Acorn Centre in Barton, they also want volunteers but didn’t bother to get back to me, so I ended up wasting a whole day, waiting in for them to call back. So I assumed they…
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Latest Arduino project now includes a 4 line LCD display. DHT11 temperature / humidity module and a soil moisture sensor. The LCD displays the temperature in Celsius, humidity as a percentage and for the moment, the moisture level on a scale of 0 -> 1023. where 1023 is the reading you get in Air…
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My latest arduino project is based on the IR sensor Tom is using as part of his IR robot project. However I don’t want to go down the same route of building a robot that just follows an IR LED around. Bottom is a IR led and a switch connected to a CR2023 cell…
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Funduino Nano Expansion Board + ATmega328P Nano V3 Improved Version For Arduino Supplier : Banggood.com Cost : Around £4.12 (buy 5 and the cost is reduced to about £3.88 Product ID: 1011009 This a really useful development board for the Arduino. Each of the 13 digital out puts and 8 analogue outputs have their own…
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The November issue of Linux voice (soon to be integrated with Linux Magazine) had a tutorial on creating a simple IRC bot. (ircbot1.py) I have been experimenting with this and have put the code on github various irc chat botshttps://github.com/zleap/irc_bots1 forks.0 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: add comments re webcam, paul Sutton Merge branch 'master'…
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It has been a while since I posted an update on what I have been up to with the Arduino. So decided to post today as I have just completed my latest project. The Arduino handbook LCD project is a basic introduction to the 16×2 lcd display. To build this you need to make…
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Further to the previous post on this. I have now made a new version of the 5v power supply unit. This works nicely, other than for the lower voltage out. But that could be due to using cheaper 7504 modules. Due to using strip board the overall build cost is significantly reduced,. Bluetack currently…
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Last night, I decided to have a go with Tmux the terminal multiplexer. This is a really useful utility that can if used in the right way improve productivity. In this example I have top running on the bottom window with a blank terminal not running anything at the top, in some ways this can…
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