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Month: July 2014

Sensor Helmet Developments

Sensor Helmet Developments

CartoDB – Cloud based GPS visualization Back in April I had found ways to plot sensor readings using GPS Visualizer.  The website allowed me to upload my data and plot the results on a map.   Just recently I came across another online tool that has some enhanced features that made me take notice. CartoDB provides SaS that processes geospatial data and presents it in customized formats.  The helmet sensor readings will be geospatial data.  This will be ideal for that application….

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Sensor Helmet Power

Sensor Helmet Power

What will I need? I think I finally decided on what to use for powering the helmet devices.  My February article didn’t give to much technical detail about what would be used.  It was more a to do list for what to spec out.  My March article was more toward the auxiliary power supply to USB devices.  Nothing so far specific to the helmet nor detailed enough to be of any use. The figure that I’ve estimated for all of…

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My oh my! Raspberry Pi in July

My oh my! Raspberry Pi in July

A new piece of Pi… Got a message from the folks at MCM Electronics about the latest offering of Raspberry Pi.  The new Model B offers some interesting features that I won’t go into details about here.  You can find that on their website.  I will note that it has more IO’s than the previous versions, but the fundamental hardware is the same. What got me to post about this is Apress sent more an offer for one of their…

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