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 […]

Project Curacao

Project Curacao First Months Published

For the latest in Project Curacao, a massive Raspberry Pi / Arduino project, check out Part 7. What is Project Curacao? Project Curacao is a sensor filled project designed to hang on a radio tower on the island nation of […]

BeaconAir iBeacon
BeaconAir

BeaconAir Lives! The Control Panel

BeaconAir Control Panel BeaconAir Lives! It is up and running with ble (Bluetooth Low Energy – iBeacons) scanning and position estimating.  There are  a few bugs left.  This project is using a Raspberry Pi to read iBeacons and figure out […]

MouseAir Logo
MouseAir

MouseAir Quote of the Day

From a fan of MouseAir in “Happy Weather” Southern California: “Two spinning wheels to provide energy for scootin` the rodent down the track to achieve an elevated trajectory for an undetermined and brief relief from the surly bonds of earth….” […]

IOS

Getting CGColor from UIColor in iOS

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

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 […]