Recently I was given an old CD player that wasn’t needed anymore. I decided to hack the electronics, and turn it into a clock. I attached an LCD screen to the CD tray to display the time, and wired it up to an arduino. I had decided that I wanted the clock to slide out […]
Read More Clap ClockMy IoT Chessboard got featured in the MagPi (the official Raspberry Pi magazine)! So chuffed! You can check it out here.
Read More MagPiHere’s a video of the fully functioning chess board in action.
Read More IoT chessboard software integrationThough I have completed all the hardware of my IoT chess board, I am still in the process of developing the software for it. An Arduino MEGA sits underneath the board and controls the hardware, while a Raspberry Pi runs a webserver and takes care of the processing. Therefore the software development comes in three […]
Read More IoT chess board softwareI recently undertook a month of work experience at Vitec, one half of which consisted of me shadowing engineers in their jobs and spending time in each department – mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software, testing etc. The other half of the time, I was allowed to use the company’s resources to build a project of […]
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Ben James 