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…
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…
New phone means new things… My Android phone was ridiculously problematic. The battery life wasn’t reliable and the reception spotty. I finally conceded and replaced it with a iPhone 4s. I have a 5s already and use a case on my bike to house it while travelling. The new phone is a bit shorter than the 5s, so I thought I’d check with the case manufacturer for a 4s case. The manufacturer is Tigra Sports and they offer a variety of…