CloudACM – Page 81 – Autonomous Computational Machines

Bluetooth – Taking a bite at phone and micro control links

March 20, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

The most direct route between a smart phone and the micro controller world of sensor appears to be bluetooth. This wireless technology has been around for some time now. The hard work has been done and the road has been laid out. Control your Arduino board from your Android device over Bluetooth, here’s a demo. How easy is that! The adapters are simple and inexpensive. The smart phones have bluetooth support. It just makes sense. I was able to find…

GSM, Iridium, and other wireless communication options.

March 19, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

The connections subject spanned at least 8 percent of the entire material covered. Most of it pertained to wired connections and physical connector types. There was little mention of wireless options. Those that were included RF, Sound, and Light. None of these were demonstrated with code or some working example. Since the next quarter will involve cloud data processing, this data will need to be uploaded wirelessly. This will introduce new methods like WiFi and GSM. I would like to…

The Internet Of Things

March 18, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

The next quarter I’ll be covering 4 P’s, these are Processing, Pi, Phones, and Presentation. Processing is an application that will do some interesting tasks. The development platform is similar to Arduino and was first demonstrated to me from Jeremy Blum’s tutorial blog. I’ve seen it used in other uses and find it useful to know for future projects. Pi is a reference to the Raspberry Pi platform. This extremely small and powerful computer is being used in ways I…