Plays with the web.
I am excited to play with one of the latest boards from Arduino. The Arduino Due is exciting because it was designed with a 32-bit ARM microcontroller instead of the 8-bit Atmel AVR MCU based Arduino boards that I am accustomed to. The new MCU provides the developer with more precision and faster clock speeds. This comparison […]
While the Vantec Power Gem looks like just another portable battery for charging your cell phone, it has two great properties that are unique. It allows you to recharge the battery while using your device and delivers uninterrupted power to the device when you yank out the power cord. I have used this for about a […]
I purchased the domain PiScripts.com with the hope of using it for a public GIT repo or snippets for Raspberry Pi related code. Life happened and I have not had the time to use it in the last year and it does not look like things will change much in 2014. I think the domain […]
I cannot wait until Thanksgiving to put up my outdoor Christmas lights. I don’t care if it breaks tradition. Raspberry Pi controlled automated Christmas lights are going up this week. Winter freaking wonderland! How to Automate your Christmas Lights with Open-Zwave: I created a basic Z-wave zoned system so I can set and forget the […]
Amazon has a new program called AmazonSmile that donates .5% of a customer’s qualifying purchase to a charity of their choice. Honestly, right now things are a little sketchy and it does not seem like all the bugs are worked out between the www and smile subdomain. That being said – money to charity (small […]