I recently became interested in the Raspberry Pi to help prepare for some projects I have coming. After reading the book “Raspberry Pi User Guide by Gareth Halfacree and Eben Upton”, I decided to place an order on element14 (Newark Canada actually) in appreciation of their support for the Raspberry Pi early on. If you…
With BlackBerry having recently announced the death of AIR, including the planned removal of applications from user phones, I thought I would leave a small present for other BlackBerry AIR developers on their final build months. Freeware & Open Source : BlackBerry 10 ANE for AIR, Access to Camera Flash What it does: This allows AIR…
BlackBerry recently announced planned 10.3.1 changes. We all love new things! However in what appears to be a money saving initiative, BlackBerry announced they are planning to end support for Adobe AIR as soon as 10.3.1 is available. … and downplayed an important detail… they are planning to remove these applications and games from devices…
I received my Robo3D printer today (and with that, a big thank you to BlackBerry and all the BlackBerry fans! This was made possible by you!). I did have a few small challenges when putting the printer together, some items that the video really didn’t show. But I will walk through those with you including…
I recently ordered a large shipment of PCB boards from a company some of you may have heard called SparkFun. Besides getting a whole bunch of cool boards, I made one additional unnecessary purchase: A DIY Digital Oscilloscope Kit. See the video here: My Rating: Medium Difficulty – Not for Beginners (But Totally Fun!)
So, A little while ago I bought 11 boards from SparkFun from Dings and Dents for 25 cents a pop. Why? Well I was curious and printed PCB’s usually run at least a dollar or so. At the same time I got a bunch of Dings and Dents sensors or something therein. Dings and Dents: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8477#comment-531a7b55757b7f6a268b4567…
Well, after a long haul and learning curve, I have started building my own Arduino. First up, I just want to say, the AVR Standalone from Adafruit – I can’t get the darn thing to work. So I am flashing my chips the old fashioned way.
Part 1: Getting the GSM working One of the projects I’m undertaking is a remote GPS tracker for my vehicle. True, you can purchase these in the 30 dollar range from Deal Extreme if you search vehicle trackers. However, I did see questions regarding temperature and stability. And one of the worries for me is…
As part of my learning curve for open source hardware, and basic electronics. This project wont take you very long, maybe an hour at most. What this does is pretty straight forward, it shows the temperature in real time for both Celsius and Fahrenheit. I’ve added some code to the Nokia, which uses the analogWrite…
Recently, a friend introduced me to Arduino. Rather, he’s been trying to introduce me for a while and I’ve just been too darned busy to play with it. So, I took on some projects and spent some energy on it this last month. First up, Meggy Jr from evil mad scientist. Not really an arduino,…
