The raspberry pi is a cheap linux box you can have plugged in all the time, and they’ll just crank away until the flash wears out… which is likely to be never. Start stuff on boot One of the few things that can get in your way: power dropping out and causing these little guys to… Continue reading Raspberry PI – Run on boot, and run forever! Systemd/Systemctl
The previous article: TP-Link POWER covered TP-link devices. They’ve become a little difficult to get ahold of this holiday season, but Wemo devices by Belkin are all over the place. WEMO Switch Outlet So, I took a little time to figure out how to automate those little puppies. Its pretty simple, once you track down… Continue reading Raspberry PI for Controlling Wemo Power
The TP-Link HS100 has a nifty little library that allows devices on the same network to control them using a tiny amount of code. This article assumes you know how to setup a raspberry pi, and that you have access to its linux terminal, either through SSH or locally via a keyboard and mouse. The… Continue reading Raspberry PI for controlling TP-Link POWER
So a friend at work just pointed me to this awesome bit of tech called the Kymera Wand which is also available as Sonic Screwdriver. Basically it is a Universal Remote, hidden in a wand, and controlled by gesture! It’s really quite awesome. Controlling a TV with a flick of the wrist is something magical, but… Continue reading Raspberry Pi – Control by Magic Wand!
This neat image was found on Edublogs.org: The robot fly looks like a fun project. I saw it on YouTube and I hope I can try it out. When I do, I will blog about it. Anyway, in the video you just watched the person in it got his parts from a lot of places, but… Continue reading The robot fly…
http://www.dogonews.com/ Dogo News is a website with a lot of kid friendly cool news links on it. I just learned about it yesterday and some of them are really high tech. For instance, I saw a news link about a robot mermaid!
Hi, Cole here. I’m 11 years old. Currently, I do basketball as my sport and my favorite pastimes are: Tabletop games: Pathfinder, Warhammer 40k, and Warmachine Making stop motion videos with minecraft figurines and megabloks Coding Playing video games including Titanfall, halo, and GW2. I am going to be blogging about board and tabletop games,… Continue reading A little about me…
Instant Worms! The science experiment called Instant Worms is very fun. I don’t remember the exact directions, but I do know that you need all the parts that the kit comes with. I also know that if you want the worms to look cool, you need to get food coloring. The directions explain how to… Continue reading Making worms…
http://TronClub.com/ Tronclub.com is a very fun way to learn electronics. You can order them online and they have very descriptive directions on how to make the project. If you want them to, they can send 1 to you once a month. There was one electronic kit that I liked the most. It was a really… Continue reading Fun electronic kits…
Begging to get going on the internets, we started the brothers off while vacationing in the woods. Kings Canyon no less! Over a slow internet connection, and among beautiful trees rocks and wild life. If this takes off, I hope we continue from places just like this…
Blogger Brothers 