Moonrise Light We had a request to get something printing on our 3D printer as a demonstration for an event a few weeks back, and separately had a request to print a lamp shade for
iot IoTrees This year, I wanted to build a connected Christmas Ornament for each of my family members. The aim was to build a light that looked nice, but also allowed us to feel connected even if we weren't together..
fujifilm Internet Connected Photo Printer - Part 1: Modding the SP-2 Modifying a Fujifilm Instax SP-2 Printer so that it can be powered on and off by a Raspberry Pi.
instax Internet Connected Photo Printer - InstaxAPI A new Python API and Command line tool that lets you print photos from your computer, using the Fujifilm Instax SP-2
mqtt E Ink Status Display In this post, I built a physical status display using a Pimoroni Inky pHAT, MQTT, Python and Javascript
mqtt Building a Twitter Connected Cuckoo Clock... Really In this post, I take a minimalistic Cuckoo clock and for better or for worse connect it to the internet.
Internet Connected Photo Printer - Introduction I've had an idea for a while now about building an internet connected photo printer that automatically prints photos for me at home as a when I take them on my phone. I
MQTT enabled Emergency Button A few years ago, I saw that you can buy these rather cool looking "Emergency Stop" buttons off the internet. It was one of those purchases you make before actually working
Building an IoT device (Internet of Tea) Being British, I'm not ashamed to admit that I have a (completely healthy) obsession with Tea. It's probably not too much of a surprise then that one of the first things that I
Monitoring houseplants with MQTT and the ESP8266 About six months ago I was able to change my role at the company that I work for. Whilst still being a software developer, I'm very lucky to now be working on something
The Monty Hall problem in python The Monty Hall problem has annoyed me for a while. Not that I didn't understand it, the wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) is quite extensive and explains it
Using the PiGlow with Node-Red My house mate is currently waiting to get his delivery of his new Raspberry Pi B+ and PiGlow, and as we were discussing this I thought it would be interesting to see if
Framing the Raspberry Pi A while back, I purchased a Pimoroni Pibow case for my raspberry pi as well as a Piglow and a Pihub (That’s a lot of Pi!). The first thing I thought was
Notification Moodlamp After spending the last six months working on my Dissertation, it was nice to focus on something a little different that I could use in my day to day life. I decided that
Sonic TV-B-Gone Screwdriver As a distraction for my Dissertation, I thought I would make my own TV-B-Gone. The TV-B-Gone is a nifty little device which acts as a universal off switch for most popular Televisions and
Measuring Energy Usage with the CurrentCost EnviR One project that has taken up a large portion of my time recently has been my energy monitor project. This setup is quite common and I was able to put the scripts together
How to Create and Download a Python script to a GM862-GPS While I have been working on the GPS car tracker project, I encountered a lot of problems with Downloading a script to the device and making it run correctly. There is a lot
