In this Halloween tutorial, we’ll be showing you how we put a super spooky twist on a mundane household classic: the security camera. How?! We’ve made a night vision owl which uses image processing to track people. Oh, and it hoots, just like the real thing!
We’ve been super excited about this project and we’ve been waiting to do it ever since the new Raspberry Pi 4 dropped. It’s got 4GB RAM, which opens the door to loads of really exciting possibilities, including doing some image processing with deep learning models in real time.
If you want to keep an…
Computers can model language in such a way that they can perform well on tasks such as text similarity. In this article, I attempt to create an Emoji suggestion tool which uses vector word embeddings to determine the relevant Emoji recommendation. I also deploy the machine learning model as a service on AWS and dive into cost estimations. A live example of the service can be found on the T3chFlicks site; all the code is open sourced.
Emoji 😂 ❤️
Emojis are common-place in internet communication, the tiny intricate pictograms have opened the door…
I like to write articles on Medium. I also want to share the same articles on our own site without having to rewrite them in a different format. For this reason, I have created a service which runs something similar to the Medium-To-MarkDown library, a programme which converts Medium posts to MarkDown format. I have offered it to everyone on our site.
To be clear, Medium-To-MarkDown is an example service whilst we work out how best to run an effective Software as a Service (SAAS).
In this article, we:
- Break down the hosting costs of the service
- Determine how feasible…
In this blog post we’ll be sharing some of our tips for setting up and organising your own home lab.
Just as a little disclaimer, this is by no means a definition of what a home lab should be — based on different interests, everyone will want slightly different kit and not everyone will want the more expensive devices. But we’ll take you through the tools we use regularly!
Tutorial 🤖
What Makes a Good Creative Space?
First of all, a home lab isn’t just about putting aside space for making stuff. For us, it’s also where we go to design. …
Fed up of the wires and hassle of plugging and unplugging your phone as you move around the house? So were we!
We’ve made a wireless charging cover which fits snugly on your sofa arm and blends in seamlessly. This simple make is a great way to upgrade your sofa and is a step on the path to eternal laziness: charging your phone is as simple as putting it down.
Supplies
- Faux Leather (Fire retardant) Amazon
- Wireless Charge Receiver Amazon
- Wireless Charging Module Amazon
- Micro-USB Wire Amazon
- 2A USB Plug Amazon
- Sewing Machine Amazon
We’ve all been there, chopping vegetables with a knife so blunt it would be more effective to use a teaspoon. In that moment, you reflect on how you got there: your knives were sharp as razors when you bought them but now, three years down the line, they’re thoroughly inadequate. “I should’ve sharpened my knives” you think to yourself. Shoulda, coulda, woulda but I didn’t.
Most of us don’t bother to sharpen our knives. It’s an extra bit of effort and when you’re just trying to make dinner, faffing around with a sharpener is the last thing you want to…
This Smart Buoy series charts our (ambitious) attempt to build a scientific buoy that can take meaningful measurements about the sea using off-the-shelf products. This is our final tutorial— make sure you’re up to date, and if you need a swift introduction to the project, check out our summary.
Part 1: Making wave and temperature measurements
Part 2: GPS, Radio (NRF24) and SD Card Module
Part 3: Scheduling Power to the Buoy
In this article, we show you how we designed the casing to protect our Smart Buoy from water, waves and shark attacks. …
This Smart Buoy series charts our (ambitious) attempt to build a scientific buoy that can take meaningful measurements about the sea using off-the-shelf products. This is tutorial three of four— make sure you’re up to date, and if you need a swift introduction to the project, check out our summary.
Part 1: Making wave and temperature measurements
Part 2: GPS, Radio (NRF24) and SD Card Module
In this tutorial, we move onto the next challenge in our Smart Buoy project: how to control the power for it!
We didn’t need the Buoy to constantly take measurements — a few at…
This Smart Buoy series charts our (ambitious) attempt to build a scientific buoy that can take meaningful measurements about the sea using off-the-shelf products. This is tutorial two of four — make sure you’re up to date, and if you need a swift introduction to the project, check out our summary.
Part 1: Making wave and temperature measurements
In this tutorial, we show show you how to get GPS data, store it on an SD card and send it somewhere using radio.
We did this so we could keep track of the location of our seaborne Buoy. The radio means…
This Smart Buoy series charts our (ambitious) attempt to build a scientific buoy that can take meaningful measurements about the sea using off-the-shelf products. This is tutorial one of four. If you need a swift introduction to the project, check out our summary.
In this tutorial, we show you how we took wave and temperature measurements on our Smart Buoy.
Supplies
- Arduino Nano — Amazon
- GY-86 (accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, compass) — Amazon
- Water Temperature sensor — Amazon
