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 […]
Project Curacao Upgrade The box is still performing well after three weeks. We are planning an maintenance trip to Curacao in September, 2014. The planned upgrades are: 1) Replacement of Wind Turbine (with maybe a different type) UPDATE: August 8, […]
Project Curacao has now been down in the Caribbean for two weeks now. We’ve had some issues but they have been resolved. We are writing an article for MagPi magazine describing all of our issues with the box and the […]
We have published the description and architecture of the software system used for Project Curacao. Check out our Project Curacao Software Description page above.
Today was the big day. We mounted the Project Curacao wind turbine (here on Amazon) and the box up on the tower. March 13, 2014. It’s running fine. You can see the graphs and latest picture on https://www.milocreek.com/projectcuracaographs. Thank you […]
All of our equipment has arrived here on the island. TSA inspected the box twice, but aside from picking up the box with the outside temperature sensor, pulling the wires off, it survived. The temperature sensor was fixable. There were […]
Our release software is done. It’s been in final test for the past week now. Here is the list of issues and latest additions.As of today (02/19/14), the current state of the software in Project Curacao is as follows:– Arduino Battery […]
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