CGColor Memory Issues I have an IOS app that I have been writing that requires color information to be stored as printable text. To do this I use CGColorGetComponents, which returns a CGFloat array of color components. I had been […]
MouseAir Redesign We are working away on designing and building Version 2 of MouseAir. Following is the latest block diagram. Goals The goals for the redesign are: Reduced Cost – eliminate unnecessary parts and reduce cost of current parts Single […]
We have always enjoyed building control panels for my projects. We used to laboriously build physical control panels with switches, meters and lights. Lots of lights. MouseAir is a complex project. 4 Servo Motors, 3 Sensors, 4 relays, 2 DC motors, one […]
MouseAir Prototype Complete – Raspberry Pi The MouseAir Project is complete! It loads toy mice and fires them off for the cat. However ridiculous that sounds. The MouseAir system is built around a Raspberry Pi controlling all the devices and […]
From 3500 miles away, a new software feature has been added to Project Curacao, Pi Camera movies. I developed a small set of software scripts to take a short video from Project Curacao and upload it to a state-side web […]
The MouseAir software is pretty simple. At least compared to the code for ProjectCuracao (that ran to over 10,000 lines of code). There are two main pieces of software. First is the MouseAir.py program. It consists of about 1000 […]
Here is the hardware block diagram for MouseAir. MouseAir is a cat toy (fake mice) launching system. It has the ability to read the cat’s RFID tag, motion detection as well as ultrasonic detection all controlled remotely from your iPad/iPhone running […]
Today we hit five weeks of Project Curacao running in the warm and windy climate. The project has been fairly robust to this point. We lost one sensor last week. The light color sensor (BM017 / tsc3574) went dead […]
The MouseAir project is moving along nicely. We have a deadline coming up next week for the article on this project, so things need to come together quickly. Here is a great little video showing the MouseAir Launching system. The […]
The latest project coming out of the SwitchDoc labs is a bit more whimsical that Project Curacao. This project detects the cat, loads a furry fake mouse in to a launching slot, shoots a solenoid and then launches it in […]
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