Andrew and I headed over to Afrimold (www.afrimold.co.za) on Tuesday. One of the vendors Cad House (3d-printer.co.za) has a kit of the RepRap which they call RapMan (based on Darwin – reprap.org/wiki/Darwin) You have a choice of single or double … Read More
The Rat Trap 2000 is a completely OTT yet humane rat catcher – it uses an Arduino UNO as the controller and an IR sensor to detect rodents chowing away on the food – we used apple and maize as … Read More
Note – this little post seem to have gone a bit viral. If you google it now, there seems to be more than 39,000 pages linking here already. Very cool indeed – Tobie A while back a little hack I … Read More
The house is now in full swing, with most of the admin issue sorted out and a successfull couple of intro Arduino courses and presentations to GTUG and a very cool Software Freedom day. We have come a long way … Read More
Jacques has been getting in the spirit of SFD
The fastest solar oven to assemble is probably the windshield reflector variant as shown below. All one needs is a reflector, a black pot with lid, an oven bag to act as a greenhouse and sunshine. It works and I … Read More
In preparation for Software Freedom Day and the H4H stand here is the Geohash of the H4H address: kekhczvdbmvb. Geohashing converts a GPS location into a string. Latitude and longitude are expressed as two sequences of bits where each bit increases … Read More
Tuesday evening at the build we had lots of phun. I was nearing completion of the first prototype of Smart House Access Control (SHAC) and appreciated the assistance, debugging and moral support received from Andrew and Schalk to finish the … Read More
Last night at the build, Philip (with the help of Andrew) completed the first working prototype of SHAC – Smart House Access Control. This is a very sophisticated access control system which is connected to the cloud – sorry a … Read More
