Cut your fence post a few inches longer than your screen width. Deburr the edges, inside being just as important. Make 2 hardwood, Lexan, or acrylic blocks to plug the ends and accept your threaded rod. Being centered and true is important, or your whole...
Get help. Clean yourself. Clean the floor. Wash your hands often. Look for the weld line on the post, or otherwise establish a line along it's length. Line up your fabric with this line, and tape across the joint, applying slight tension the the fabric....
Drill two holes, almost all the way through, two blocks of something the same size as the outer diameter of your roller blade bearings. It's a common size like 3/4 or 7/8in. Make them identical. For the hole you are after, you need a nut on the threaded...
Take your other coupler nut, and fashion a small post coming off of it at a 90 degree angle. I welded mine. Take your corner brace, and make a second post behind the first, the thickness of the corner brace, so the main post slides on the front, and...
Run the motor in the 'screen up' direction. Take a brand new, sharp razor knife and hold it against un-even ends of the rolled up fabric. Make sure the direction of travel of the material is going away from you, so the knife does't bind in the cut and...
The relay coil is driven by 'remote power' output on the projector. There are no other connections made to the coil. As such, this also performs the needed isolation so if you screw up anything else, you at least don't fry your projector. The projector...
Put it up on the wall and level it. One day in the sun will remove any wrinkles, or careful application of a hair dryer will do the same. Don't overheat it as the plastic inside can expand and ruin it.Tweak the stop positions. Applying...
Sew the gemma onto the hoodie in a location that is relatively close to where you are putting the leds.I put it on the inside of the left half of the hoodie.Make sure you read adafruit's guide on sewing with conductive thread, especially the part about...
Possible improvements coming:Adafruit just released a heartrate sensor, that could be fun to add into this project.Accelerometer could also be nice to add in.GPS? Maybe so, not sure how that would work though.
First I got the RPI set up with the latest and greatest Raspian. Make sure that you up-date up-grade and set the GPIO and Camera in raspi-config. This site has all the information that I started off with even the code I used to get it working at first...
On this next link is where I got the info for sending the photos taken with its own email account .http://mitchtech.net/connect-raspberry-pi-to-gmail...I tested it by copying the script to send attachments in to the python editor on the rpi by first...
Well in this step I will focus on the code and getting it to work with Facebook and Flickr ....---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#!/usr/bin/env python# this file is run using this...
Ok I pored the cement in the tube with a blue foam board on the bottom glued to the sides. That seemed to work out well accept I stuck a blue foam board cutout with a hole cut out in it to keep the 2" pvc pipe in place. Bad Idea it moved the PVC pipe...
From the last step you should have seen how to and where every thing is going. So lets get started with the power... I used a PC power supply I had. ( 500 Watt ) I cut out the + 12 v and rigged the power supply to come on when power is applied. ...
Build the base station using the following simple steps:Disassemble the outlet controller remote and throw away the plastic casingSolder wires between the +5v line on the Arduino and the positive battery terminal on the remote.Do the same with the ground...