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Cat Cam | Austinlightguy's Blog
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8230;Making Things with Light. ASUS Transformer Prime antenna hack. Arduino-Based WiFi Lawn Sprinkler Controller →. August 11, 2013. A little while ago, I heard a piece about The Secret Life of Cats on NPR. This dude put a camera/GPS logger on a number of cats and mapped what they do throughout the day. There info and a cool interactive map here http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567526. 8211; under 10 bucks, good ratings and Prime delivery in two days – perfect! Opened up spy cam. Inside yo...
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Arduino-Based WiFi Lawn Sprinkler Controller | Austinlightguy's Blog
https://austinlightguy.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/arduino-based-wifi-lawn-sprinkler-controller
8230;Making Things with Light. Fast Updates (frame rates) of Color Effect G35 Grids →. Arduino-Based WiFi Lawn Sprinkler Controller. October 18, 2013. This post describes a project I undertook to build a home-grown, Arduino-based, WiFi-enabled lawn sprinkler controller. Well, a while ago my controller died again (I think I’ve gone through three of them now),. Tethered Arduino UNO sprinkler controller and Triac board. So I decided to build something better. My first iteration was an Arduino. As I thought ...
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8230;Making Things with Light. Wine Cooler Power Supply. April 26, 2016. I’m just going to blog about this one briefly, in case their are any other enterprising Wine Cooler owners out there who find that, two years into owning their cheapo wine cooler, the power supply craps out. I didn’t take … Continue reading →. Lightsuit V2.0 (part 2). March 15, 2016. Using ADC with the ESP8266. March 9, 2016. Remote ESP8266-based Garage Door sensor. March 7, 2016. I’ve got a bunch of z-wave light switches and ...
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Homemade Security Camera based on Raspberry Pi | Austinlightguy's Blog
https://austinlightguy.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/homemade-security-camera-based-on-raspberry-pi
8230;Making Things with Light. Fast Updates (frame rates) of Color Effect G35 Grids. Experimenting with the ESP8266 →. Homemade Security Camera based on Raspberry Pi. August 25, 2014. This is a great project! Http:/ www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-as-low-cost-HD-surveillance-camera/? I went a little further by adding an IR LED array that I happened to have lying around (from previous repairs projects). It is similar to this one – http:/ www.dx.com/p/31632. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.
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ESP8266 Update | Austinlightguy's Blog
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8230;Making Things with Light. Bluetooth HC-05 and Connection Status Detection. Light Dimming Using Ardiuno with Inverters →. April 28, 2015. OK, since my first post on the ESP8266 and some replies I posted there as I made progress getting it to work, I’ve now had a chance to play with it a bit more. For example), you could end up messing up timing within the core firmware that controls the WiFi stack. So far, I have no evidence of this, it is mainly conjecture. I2C libraries are compiled into the latest...
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Bluetooth HC-05 and Connection Status Detection | Austinlightguy's Blog
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8230;Making Things with Light. Experimenting with the ESP8266. ESP8266 Update →. Bluetooth HC-05 and Connection Status Detection. April 22, 2015. So, I found these cheap HC-05 and HC-06 Bluetooth-to-serial modules out there, which is nearly perfect. One problem – I bought one, and it wound up being an HC-06. Turns out, the State pin, which is tied to GPIO09 on the HC-06 ‘daughterboard’, and is supposed to go high when the bluetooth pairs,. Doesn’t work on the HC-06. Oh, and by the way, the opposite (AT P...
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Experimenting with the ESP8266 | Austinlightguy's Blog
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8230;Making Things with Light. Homemade Security Camera based on Raspberry Pi. Bluetooth HC-05 and Connection Status Detection →. Experimenting with the ESP8266. April 19, 2015. Recently co-hacker Jay pointed this out to me: http:/ rayshobby.net/esptoy/. Code on it. A very cool little board that let’s you get little Wifi ‘node’ up and going with minimal effort at the very low cost of $17! He also references a project. So, I decided to dig deeper. The LUA runtime is OK, but there aren’t a lot of...They...
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Driving GE G-35 Light String with Digilent Uno32 | Austinlightguy's Blog
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8230;Making Things with Light. Synchronized Lights using LabVIEW and Arduino. GE G35 ColorEffects Christmas Tree (part 1) →. Driving GE G-35 Light String with Digilent Uno32. September 11, 2011. Well, Christmas is approaching, so I guess it’s the time of year when I start revisiting projects that abruptly paused around Dec 26th last year. Recently, an Arduino-compatible board by Digilent, the Uno32,. The board did have one compatibility problem with my sketch – I guess it doesn’t support the ...That said...
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ASUS Transformer Prime antenna hack | Austinlightguy's Blog
https://austinlightguy.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/asus-transformer-prime-antenna-hack
8230;Making Things with Light. Repair the WiFi on Your Foscam FI8904, FI8905 or Maygion IP Camera. Cat Cam →. ASUS Transformer Prime antenna hack. June 7, 2013. I want to be able to use this thing at work, primarily in meetings, but our already poor WiFi signal in many conference rooms makes it almost useless. So, I finally got up the nerve to try some kind of hack. Following the instructions here http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? I am definitely getting better reception, so I’m pretty please. It&#...Address...
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Fast Updates (frame rates) of Color Effect G35 Grids | Austinlightguy's Blog
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8230;Making Things with Light. Arduino-Based WiFi Lawn Sprinkler Controller. Homemade Security Camera based on Raspberry Pi →. Fast Updates (frame rates) of Color Effect G35 Grids. November 25, 2013. It’s the time of the year to start playing around with Christmas Light hardware and software. Lately, I’m focusing more on simpler (i.e, less light strings) displays and more on incorporating my “ mini mega light tree. As described in previous posts ( Driving GE G-35 Light String with Digilent Uno32. Since m...