Lights. DIY. Father. Husband. Engineer.
Want a Christmas light show that will wow the neighbors? This easy tutorial was put together to help the average person that knows nothing about Smart Pixels get off the ground running. Though I am assuming you’ve already read my Intro to Smart Pixels – Part 1, an entry level post on technology terms, controllers … Read more
Want some cool Christmas lights? Tired of the normal lights your parents grew up on? When I began my journey into Christmas light shows (aka smart lights that twinkle to any pattern), I too knew absolutely nothing about the terms, the technology or what to look for. Even though I have an electrical engineering background … Read more
I found a need to highly document an easy approach for users to setup a Raspberry Pi Falcon Player (FPP) with WiFi so that I could access the FPP connected to a Falcon F16v3 over the E1.31 (Ethernet) both from my house PC. Here’s my layout: There are 7 steps you need to … Read more
So i’ve made some updates on my Raspberry pi robot, and the video has been posted for some time now. In this tutorial you’ll see hints on how I built the robot, what is needed. For starters the robot works! It drives, moves, and is fully controlled by the Wii remote. HOW COOL!! check out … Read more
Hope you like my play on words in the title Wi-Fi Pi! I’m doing a tutorial on getting your raspberry pi to run off a Wi-Fi USB key. This way you no longer have to use an Ethernet connection or have that cord running across your living room floor like mine was doing for months. … Read more
So my last post on how to use the Nintendo Wii controller with the Raspberry Pi was popular. Thus, i’ve been working on the next stage of the project which includes connecting my Digilent Cerebot II Atmega64L micro-controller to the Raspberry Pi. This required that I get the SPI connection working between the Pi and … Read more
So this is going to be a many part series for a robot project i’m working on. This first one covers writing a program that runs on the Raspberry Pi. This program is going to connect through bluetooth to a Nintendo Wii controller and allow you to control the data via … Read more
So one of the phases in my project is connecting the Raspberry Pi to a micro-controller that has many Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signals. Since the Raspberry doesn’t have the number of PWM signals I need to control i’m going to do so through SPI. This post is the ‘how to’ on getting your SPI … Read more
So one of the first things I was very interested in the Raspberry Pi doing was running 1080p videos. All that power coming from one little controller, I couldn’t believe it. So here is my success story of how I got my new raspberry pi to run 1080p videos right after installing Debian onto it. … Read more
I ordered my Raspberry Pi in the first couple weeks that it was available, and after a 4 month wait because the demand was so high, it has arrived. So what is a Raspberry Pi and what are the first steps you should do to use it? Well the first thing I did was read lots … Read more