A journey through information technologies
What we will be making I recently got an opportunity to present my first workshop and thought that it could be interesting to share the result. It’s an introduction to Arduino for beginners during which we will be making a automated tea steeper. I chose this project because it provides a good way to introduce…
Prologue I recently wrote a tutorial explaining how to make a connected barometer in which I used Thingspeak as an endpoint for the data. With the current buzz around the Internet of Things, a lot of similar services popped up : Plotly, the Wolframe data drop, Xively and even IBM Cloud to name a few.…
Prologue I’ve never really considered connecting my projects to WiFi since the price of the shields was so high. The HUZZAH from Adafruit will set you back $39.95. Sparkfun sells this shield for $84.95. Way to expensive. So you might imagine my excitement when I first heard about the ESP8266 through hackaday. A WiFi module…
Prologue I recently moved in a new apartment in which the living room lights could be controlled with a remote. Having already played with IR signals in order to incorporate remote control to some of my projects I knew that I would probably be able to emulate the signals sent by the original remote and…
I had a spare segment display and wondered about what I could make out of it. Hence was born the idea of the anti-procrastination box : for those of us who are a little too close to their smartphones but need to stay away from it from productivity reasons, put the phone in the box…
I hope you enjoyed the first two sections of the tutorial. If you got through it, rest assured that the hardest part is behind us. The game engine is at 90% done at that point, and handling screens is very straightforward in kivy. We’re just going to make a few arrangements here before packaging the…
If you followed Part 1 of this tutorial, hopefully your development environment should be all set. We’re ready to get down to business (in France we would say : “mettre les mains dans le cambouis”. Because you can learn coding, and useless french idioms at the same time!)
I wanted to code my first android app for a long time but I didn’t really know where to start. I wasn’t really excited at the idea of having to learn Java and was worried that my current level of C++ wouldn’t be enough. So I began to look for a way to code the…
I started to tinker with electronics when a friend gave me an Arduino starter pack a year ago. At the time I only had a few components (some resistors, leds, jumper cables and push buttons) and it was easy to remember where everything was.
