Pi vs Arduino
Last week I gave a talk showing three different ways to flash an LED. One of the questions at the end was why would we use a Pi vs an Arduino?
Posted in: Electronics
Tags: Arduino, Rasberry Pi
Machine learning at the edge
I’ve recently been experimenting with Machine Learning for an upcoming project video. The advantage of using Machine Learning is that it can find patterns in data that would be difficult to code for using conventional methods. For example, they can
Posted in: Electronics
Tags: Arduino, machine learning, TensorFlow
Circuit Playground Classic
For an upcoming project, I’ve been having a play with the Circuit Playground board. This circular board has a selection of sensors, lights and touch capability. There’s a great demo for the board when you turn it on with a
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Tags: Arduino
Enchanted Cottage – An upgraded Weather House
Today was the final day for any submissions to the Enchanted Objects Design Challenge. As well as completing our projects we were tasked with blogging about the challenge on the community website, hence why you’ve not heard more about it
Posted in: Enchanted Cottage
Tags: Arduino, Electronics
Shorted pins workaround
In my previous Topsy Turvy clock post I mentioned that two of the output pins of my Arduino Micro were shorted together. I desoldered the pins and inspected the board using a magnifying glass. I even tried cutting at the
Posted in: Electronics, Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: Arduino
Real Time Clock – DS1307
For my Topsy Turvy clock project I’ve purchased an I2C clock module based on the DS1307 Real-Time Clock chip. As mentioned this came without a battery to keep the post office happy. Although looking at the current wording of the
Posted in: Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: Arduino, RTC, Sponsored
More small steppers
The output of my stepper motor feeds into a gearbox which I’ve been told has a ratio of approximatly 64:1. During the research of this project I came across a discussion about why the gear ratios were not exact nice
Posted in: Electronics, Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: Arduino, stepper motor
Arduino Micro Review
The Arduino Micro is one of the newer Arduino models but it does not get much of a mention. Like the Leonardo it has a single microcontroller chip, the ATmega32u4 which is an 8bit controller with 32K of Flash and
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Tags: Arduino
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
