One morning I didn’t remember to water the peace lilies outside my window. By evening they had keeled over and looked terribly dehydrated… to say the least. Since there happened to be an unconnected solenoid valve connected to the pipeline anyway, it was the perfect opportunity to throw in a
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After quite a few years, I finally managed to figure out how to put a Flysky FS-TH9X transmitter/receiver pair to good use, without putting it in the sky. Quick question: If a project doesn’t run on the ground, and doesn’t get off the ground, where do you put it? Answer:
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Quark 2016 – A Cosmic Odyssey Days of festival: 5th, 6th & 7th February 2016 I participated in Line Following, Roborace and, for the first time, Open Showcase! RoboRace Objective: Design & build a remote controlled all-terrain racer that can traverse any given path with obstacles like rocks, sand, slopes, uneven
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This is a follow-up to my previous tutorial Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi – 1. (If you’re not familiar with web servers, PHP coding and the basic concepts of IOT, you should probably go through part 1 first.) In the previous tutorial, we set up an Apache 2 web server
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When I was new to IOT (Internet Of Things), I saw that there were hardly any tutorials which were simple enough for a beginner to understand and try out. There was either to much technical jargon, or the hardware was too complex. So now that I’ve played around with IOT a bit, I decided to make a
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Sometimes you’re plain old alarm clock just isn’t good enough. You need a drastic change in the external environment to shake you out of your deep slumber. And this is just what the Bluetooth Smart Alarm does best! The project consists of 3 modules and an Android application (made using MIT
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