I have been working on finding a better way to power my mobile retro pie for a while now. The only requirements were that it had enough amperage to run it, was easy to recharge, had a small footprint and a power switch. As simple as those requirement were, it was rather difficult to find…

I purchased a NoIR Raspberry Pi camera a while back thinking I would replace my outdoor night vision surveillance camera feed with a smarter version. All I wanted it to do was to be able to pan around and maybe even tilt a bit. Of course I also need to be able to access and…

Ever since I put together the Raspberry Pi with a 7” touchscreen I haven’t exactly figured out what to do with it until I put it on top of a Google AIY Voice kit. What if I made a google home hub? I’ve built an Alexa with a Raspberry Pi and a ridiculously large microphone…

Not a creature was stirring in Micro Center, not even a mouse. So I went out and decided to throw caution to the wind and this is what happens. I “accidentally” buy a ton of random stuff from Micro Center! Here’s the breakdown: Raspberry Pi Zero W Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Raspberry Pi 7 inch…

Fitbit + AWS API Gateway + AWS SNS + AWS SQS + AWS Lambda + Particle Photon

For years now my wife and I could never agree what “cold” meant. She would always tell me that it’s not that cold and I should turn the heat down. Since the winter is upon us again, I’ve decided to settle this argument and finally prove to her that I am feeling cold because it…

I decided to upgrade the sad, slow, fuzzy, old web cam that I installed in my Pi2-D2’s head back a few months ago. I had to move the raspberry pi zero w out of its body to inside the head casing. This ensures that the camera ribbon cable does not get ripped up when the…

Home alone with my vision machine learning robot friend. It thinks I’m sitting beside a banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle or wine bottle. Runs off 2 raspberry pis. One controls the pan and tilt motor which houses the camera. The camera is attached to a movidius myriad 2 VPU for neural computing and another raspberry pi….

Added a MAX98357A I2S amp with an 8 ohm speaker just under the screen. This allowed to have a smaller build as I was able to get rid of the USB hub and sound card from the back. I replaced it with a bigger external battery for much longer retro gaming goodness.

I dusted off my original Pi Racer project that was at one point in time a Particle Photon Racer. Now I plan to turn it into a dual Raspberry Pi setup with a movidius myriad 2 VPU and a camera mounted on a pimoroni pan-tilt hat. I am running Google AIY’s vision ML on one…