Looking into the possibilities of touch or proximity sensing–as the mechanism by which the user interacts with our model of the ecosystem, and brings that system into “balance,” or “harmony”–I looked into repurposing an FM radio receiver from an undergraduate RF Design course. I remembered, from when I was building it, that the local[…]
I’ve spent a few days trying to get the Leap Motion to play nicely with the Raspberry Pi. If you don’t know, the Raspberry Pi is a very neat low-power, low-cost development board which supports full linux based desktop operating systems. The Pi is perfect for our needs because it allows us to easily control[…]
Hey guys 🙂 (I have class until 6pm today so I’m trying to put this up as soon as I can) I got a lot of help from Tyler on getting started with BeautifulSoup on Thursday and I have gotten the main structure of it done. It prints most of the data in a text[…]
After last week’s meeting I went home and started researching LED strips and settled on buying the a strip on Ebay  “RGB LED Pixels 50pc 12mm Diffused 5V Waterproof Addressable Full Color”. I believed it was using the WS2801 chipset such as those sold on Adafruit, but it turns out they are based on the[…]
