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The Living Map of Manchester powered by Arduino and HERE.
I attended an Internet of Things with Arduino @MadLabUK course last year and thought it would be cool to use an Arduino (in this case a Mega) to display some of the data that is accessible through the HERE maps APIs a.k.a the HERE platform (used to be known as the Nokia Location Platform prior…
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Cycling Indicator MkII – for the entertainment of a 4 yr old (of course)…
I bought an arduino kit from oomlout which contained a motor, servo and other bits and bobs. Using the kit I upgraded the cycling indicator (see previous post) so that, as well as a light being turned on when the account being monitored sends a ‘Mike is cycling’ tweet, a motor is activated. The motor…
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Building the Internet of Things @madlabuk
Not posted for a while. There’s a few reasons for this. 1. DIY. 2. The Wire. 3. I’m working on a project that’s been in the pipeline for a long time. Anyway, back in June last year I attended an introductory Arduino course run by Omniversity at Madlab, Manchester. It was great fun and I…
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Arduino @ MadLab, Manchester
Had great fun a couple of weekends ago at the Arduino Introduction to Physical Computing course run by the Omniversity at Madlab, Manchester. I’m interested in putting together a prototype for a second screen which shows information from your mobile phone (communicated via bluetooth) for use when on the push bike. Kind of like Sony…