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Controller ins and outs

Controller ins and outs

Now I would like to return back to home automation and control.  There are basically three components of the system; these are input devices, controllers, and output devices.  Lets start by covering the heart of the system, the controllers. In this section I’ll cover the controllers.  They fall into three categories, device, communications, and central. The central controller will be the Raspberry Pi.  It is Rome and all roads lead to it.  It takes input, produces output, and is what…

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XBee, Arduino, and RPi

XBee, Arduino, and RPi

Introduction – over the garden wall In mid July of 2014, I had posted about a new version of RPi and XBee.  In this post will cover XBee wireless technology.  We will also cover how XBee can be used to link sensors to the RPi.  Next, we go through linking the Arduino to the RPi.  In reminiscence, a newer offering of the RPi has just been made available to the public.  I may do a brief overview of the new features,…

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2014-15 Academic Calendar

2014-15 Academic Calendar

This years instruction will cover these concepts throughout the following three quarters. Meshed Sensors with Raspberry PI, Arduino, and XBee Bluetooth LE and Augmented reality Computer Vision with Arduino and Kinect OpenCV and CV Metrics Raspberry PI Mashups and Scraping Mashups and Scraping with Google Docs and CartoDB Course work and assignments will be instruction orientated, meaning the student is the teacher.  Lessons can utilize any media format, provided they follow a structured flow.  The structure will need to include the following: Introduction of the topic and…

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