Raspberry Pi
BeaconAir

BeaconAir Portable Pi

BeaconAir iBeacon Portable Pi Here is a picture of the completed BeaconAir Portable Pi project.  It’s not much to look at, but it works.  BeaconAir is a Raspberry Pi based project that reads the advertising packets coming from iBeacons and […]

MouseAir

MouseAir Redesign in Progress

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 […]

MouseAir Control Panel
MouseAir

MouseAir Control Panel – Pi / RasPiConnect

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 - Raspberry Pi
MouseAir

MouseAir Prototype Complete – Raspberry Pi

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 […]

Arduino

Project Curacao Raspberry Pi Video

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 […]

MouseAir

MouseAir Block Diagram – Raspberry Pi

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 […]

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MouseAir

MouseAir Launcher Prototype Video

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 […]