OverviewCurrently there are over 422 million people worldwide suffering from diabetes. 28.5% of them suffer from Diabetic Retinopathy(1) . 50% of diabetics are unaware about the risk of losing their vision(2). The number of cases of diabetic retinopathy...
The OriginsWhen we decided to throw a party in LA (which became know as The Gathering) I wanted it to be more than just free t-shirts and beer. Laser Graffiti popped to mind and I was glad that Ben was willing to take the lead on that project....
Hardware used. Seeeduino v1.1 Phaktor bought this a few years back, played with it a couple of times but it just sat in his hobby bin ‘til now. Parallax LCD http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/27977/27... bought from RadioShack...
For a while had been wanting to experiment with having touchscreens around the house to add more home control options to a location. Having a smartphone and older iPod touches used as remote controls, I knew they aren't always within reach or easily...
A bendulum is topped with a weight. If you give the top a push, it sways back and forth periodically. The motion is much like a pendulum, except that instead of swinging rigidly from a pivot and moving the most at the bottom, the bendulum’s stem flexes...
I bought an XMS amplifier from a friend years ago and although it was serving it's purpose I got quite frustrated with having to toggle the loudness feature every time the input was changed. This was the beginning of what has now become my network enabled...
So, where I stand now. I ended up using a Mesa 5i25 PCI card and a 7i76 step/dir control card. The Yaskawa servos have pretty good auto tune so I decided to leave the PID loop up to the servo drives.Speaking of servo drives, that and the servo motors...
The battery in my Lenovo laptop were slowly losing part of it's capacity. The remaining capacity was 69% (good score after 2,5 years) but I need the really long battery time while travelling. The battery statistics according to Lenovo power utility:So,...
is a fully functioning airsoft RC-XD . For the video function I used a gopro with a wifi backpack and streamed it to my phone, theres a bit of lag but it is fast enough for my purposes. the detonation works with a garage door opener hooked up to...
The device is based on a PIC16F88 microcontroller. The sleep mode of the PIC is used for standby, negating the need for a power switch. The PIC simply records the last state of the metal ball switch and then uses the opposite of this as a trigger for...
What is it?Here you'll find the hardware design files for a CAN controller for the Raspberry Pi SBC.It is designed to be easy to use. The CAN transceiver keeps the RPi and the CANPi elctrically isolated, so you do not need to worry about voltage levels....
IntroductionAt the head of the setup is a router that provides internet access for the system. The first node is comprised of a chipKIT Max32, Max32 Ethernet Shield and XBee Shield (developed PCB). The second node is the Wireless Thermostat that is responsible...
Last year I bought an EEG headset (the Mindwave Mobile) to play with my Raspberry Pi and then ended up putting it down for a while. Luckily, this semester I started doing some more machine learning and decided to try it back out. I thought it might be...
What started as a hack so simple and obvious, uncovered a serendipitous solution that might inspire similar hacks. As those of us who deal with clearing paths thru snow for any length of time know, a snow shovel eventually wears out. Modern inexpensive...