We recently found a free SMS gateway called SMS PI – this service allows you to send up to 500 SMS messages to any phone numbers within the UK; the actual servers that send out the messages are also hosted on a Raspberry Pi. We decided to give this a go and hook it up … Read more
What robotics project doesn’t need eyes? By eyes we’re referring to HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensors. We have put together a quick and easy library to get started with using these sensors. The HC-SR04 is a low cost, easy to use sensor that will measure distance by bouncing ultrasonic sound waves off of obstacles in front of … Read more
I’ll start off by saying, No, this isn’t a card game similar to top trumps. It’s not even a game at all. Let’s start at the beginning…… Nick over at Arachnid Labs designed a series of playing cards with a little electronic circuit and description printed onto each one. His original idea was to include one with … Read more
We recently attended the BETT 2014 show and bumped into Matrix Multimedia; they introduced us to the latest revision of their product, Flowcode 6. We’ll be doing this in a two-part post as Matrix Multimedia kindly gave us one of their development boards to try out (ECIO28P PIC), we’ll be posting separately about what we’ve done … Read more
You’ve probably noticed that quite a few posts on here talk about an Arduino, however we haven’t really gone into detail about what one is or where to get one from. An Arduino is an open source platform that is based on a microcontroller and an easy to use development environment for building electronic projects. The amount … Read more