SPOKA Night Light controlled from and Android Phone

You people must have been wondering “what the heck was going on” and why haven’t I posted anything for the last 3 months or so… keep reading and you’ll find out more !

Simple serial transceiver – Aurel RTX-MID

 

I’ve been looking for a simple and cheap wireless serial data solution for quite a while now…

No specific usage, but things like every time you integrate your Arduino into a project and then 2 days later you want to update the code and you have to dismount everything, or simply remote control a project or more generally just getting tired of “all the wires”…

Electronic Anti-roll system for tractor (or how to connect IOIO to a Basic Atom

“Tractor”, what tractor… ? That’s what you must be wondering right now, as I don’t often blog about tractors… especially full scale agricultural ones…

This is a slightly different post for me, in that it’s about some help I gave to 2 guys in Germany, working on a hydraulic anti-roll system for a tractor.
Wow… I never though I would be working on “revolutionising the agriculture” as they’ve put it…

Basic Atom Pro M40 - IOIO - and the ICONIA A500 Android tablet

VFD Clock Connects to the Internet

Here is, finally, one week later than planned, the sequel to my initial Ice Tube VFD clock .

It is able to :

1. get the time from the internet and automatically synchronise itself (why have to set the time and use a battery to keep it running when disconnected, if we have Internet access ?)
2. periodically fetch some weather data and display it
3. do searches on Twitter and display the 1st result

So rather than “simply” displaying the time, every 15secs it alternates between the time, the weather and a Twitter message.

Vacuum Fluorescent Display Clock based on Soviet IV-18 tube

VFD IV-18 Clock Finished and working

TI eZ430 Watch – Unboxing and Hello World

It’s been almost a month since my last post, and this is due among others, to some August holidays in France… This being the 1st week-end back in London I thought I HAD to hack something and blog about it…

While away I have received the eZ430 Chronos Development Tool / Watch from Texas Instruments (have I ever mentioned how great their service is, how quick and free the delivery, etc. … !? ) and therefore had to put aside my Android / IOIO related projects, and delve into this new gadget !

Android IOIO Wii Motion Plus – Gyroscopes

First of all, the more I work with Android, the more I love it … ! It’s so cool to have both Linux and Java and everything is so open and hackable … !

Wii Motion Plus connected to the IOIO board and then to the Android phone

Android IOIO Wii Nunchuck

I’ve already written a post about how to connect the Wii Nunchuck to the Lego NXT using LeJOS, and there is also information on my blog about how to do the same thing with an Arduino (though I can’t find it right now, so no easy link…).

It’s only fair that I explore the same thing with an Android phone and the IOIO board.

Android – IOIO – RC Servo (or ESC)

This is a sequel to my first Hello World example with the IOIO / Android setup….

Android + IOIO controlling a RC servo

Random Project Box

…there’s not much to say about this one afternoon project… except that I have no idea what to do with it… !

I’m more than open to any interesting suggestion…

Project Box Final