Thursday, April 10th, 2014
Haris Andrianakis wrote a post on his blog detailing his power line communication system: The main purpose was to implement two devices communicating each other, using the technology of power line. Specifically, at this project the communication has been used to send data from a weight bridge/ weight machine to a remote display. For...Tags: Atmega168, Microcontrollers, Power Line
Posted in AVR, data transfer | 2 Comments »
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
x893 writes: New version of small form-factor GPS/GSM tracker. Change MCU to EFM32 increase standalone time (previous version use STM32 MCU) Also change old BMA180 to MMA8562 and add 32Mbit (4MB) flash chip to save data if GSM not available or battery low. Use MS Azure platform for web site...Tags: GPS/GSM, tracker
Posted in data transfer | 5 Comments »
Monday, April 7th, 2014
Andrianakis Haris produced this detailed article while completing a thesis toward a B.Sc in Department of Electronic Computer Systems Engineer at Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece. "Power line comnunication (PLC) is the technology that allows data transmission over the existing Power Line network. Power Line can be the home...Tags: power line communications
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Friday, March 21st, 2014
Solid state drives (SSD) are gaining in popularity, particularly as components costs and machine form factors continue to shrink. In this article from Linux Journal online magazine, Brian Trapp gives an in depth presentation on the current state of SSD's and their advantages and disadvantages in various Linux related operations.Tags: Linux Journal, Solid state drive, SSD
Posted in data transfer, Linux, tutorials | No Comments »
Saturday, December 21st, 2013
Here the open source GNU Radio companion program is used to demonstrate the transmission of data from one laptop to another using frequency shift keying (FSK). They use an audio carrier frequency of 23 kHz. You can download the code for the GNU Radio companion flowgraph at Anfractuosity.com.Tags: GRU Radio, ultrasound
Posted in #liveupdates, code, data transfer, wireless | No Comments »
Sunday, August 25th, 2013
Trev writes to inform us of a wireless communication device without a dedicated power source has emerged from the Networks and Wireless lab of the University of Washington. According to the developers, "We present the design of a communication system that enables two devices to communicate using ambient RF as...Tags: ambient backscatter, Univ of Washington
Posted in data transfer, wireless | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
At the recently concluded TROOPERS13 conference in Heidelberg, Germany, presenters Michael Ossmann and Dominic Spill revealed the details on their Project Daisho, an open source hardware and software project to build a device that can monitor high speed communication links and pass all of the data back to a host...Tags: Daisho, data sniffer, phy layer monitoring
Posted in data transfer, open source, Videos | No Comments »
Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
Saulius has been working on this project to use the Carambola2 dev board for portable Dropbox uploading. This eliminates the need for a PC, allowing pictures from a webcam be to uploaded directly using the dev board's built-in WiFi. Sometimes it’s overkill to use computer with 200W power consumption for...Tags: Carambola2, cloud computing, Dropbox
Posted in data transfer, dev boards, how-to | 1 Comment »
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
The concept of dead drops, where USB thumbdrives are installed in public places for the distribution of files "off the grid" has been a popular topic. Now Steve Schuler writes in with his new take on this concept currently featured in Science 2.0. His article describes low tech ways to...Tags: DeadDrop
Posted in data transfer, encryption, security, USB | No Comments »
Friday, January 11th, 2013
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Ford announced their OpenXC project, a combination of open source hardware and software that lets you extend your vehicle with custom applications and pluggable modules. It uses standard, well-known tools to open up data from the vehicle to developers. The OpenXC team explains,...Tags: automotive, CAN-bus, Ford, OBD II, openXC
Posted in Android, code, data transfer, open source | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Here's an open source project by Dimitar Gamishev which demonstrates how to communicate using I2C in Android applications. As shown in this project Dimitar uses this code with an A13-OLinuXino running Android to drive relays and read ADCs and GPIOs on a connected MOD-IO board. Tsvetan Usunov via the contact...Tags: I2C
Posted in Android, code, data transfer | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
STMicroelectronics has introduced the M24LR04E-R 4-Kbit Dual Interface EEPROM with RFID. "The M24LR04E-R device is a dual-interface, electrically erasable programmable memory (EEPROM). It features an I2C interface and can be operated from a VCC power supply. It is also a contactless memory powered by the received carrier electromagnetic wave. The...Tags: eeprom, I2C, M24LR04E-R, STMicroelectronics
Posted in components, data transfer, documentation, RFID | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Debraj has been developing a project to read the OBD information through CAN bus. His design is based on the dsPIC33FJ128MC802 (3.3V) and MCP2551. He is using a factory stock OBD cable and feeding the data into a jack on the project board. The data is displayed on a 16x4...Tags: automotive, CAN-bus, OBD
Posted in code, data transfer, how-to | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 9th, 2012
Chemicaloliver has written a short post describing how to graph ez430 Chronos watch data in Processing. His post includes links to the source code, which is an extension of the earlier Processing code by Sean Brewer. Originally written in 2010, this info remains relevant for newly minted Chronos hackers who've...Tags: ez430 Chronos watch
Posted in code, data transfer, how-to, MSP430, Processing | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Steve at Big Mess o' Wires has resumed work on his Macintosh floppy drive emulator project. Previously he had developed the project on a breadboard using an Altera EPM7128S CPLD and an Atmel ATMEGA32u4 microcontroller. Now he has assembled it on a project board and updated some of his components....Tags: Apple, floppy emu, retro computing
Posted in data transfer, project logs, vintage | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Harald Welte presented this talk at the 28C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. While we use packet oriented transmissions daily over cellular networks, unlike TCP/IP and Ethernet many even in the hacker community are not familiar with the actual protocol stacks for those cellular packet networks. The purpose of this...Tags: 28C3, EDGE, GPRS, HSPA, protocol stacks, UMTS
Posted in code, data transfer, open source, talks, wireless | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
This video from OSCON, the Open Source Convention, features Alasdair Allen demonstrating the use of Maker Shed’s RedPark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS. This demo the Redpark Serial Cable for iOS, which is an Apple-approved cable for connecting your iOS device to almost anything using serial communication. For more...Tags: Apple, iOS, Make
Posted in Arduino, data transfer, demonstrations | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
In this lightning talk from the recently concluded 28C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Aram Bartholl presents updated information on the topic of dead drops. Dead drops are a means of anonymously conveying data using USB drives physically embedded in public spaces. (See this post from 2010.) This talk also...Tags: 28C3, dead drops, USB
Posted in data transfer, talks, USB, wireless | 5 Comments »
Monday, January 9th, 2012
Apps For Arduino is a website that specializes in creating software applications that work specifically with your hardware projects. You download and install the app on your Mac or iOS device and it communicates with the Arduino via a serial connection. While not all the apps are free, those which...Tags: apps
Posted in Arduino, data transfer, site | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Nimbits 3.3 is live! With Nimbits, you can record data into "Data Points" hosted on a public or private cloud that can be connected to sensors, social networks, devices, software or anything else. The Nimbits team reports: This version of Nimbits provides full machine to machine (M2M) communication capabilities using...Tags: cloud, internet of things, nimbits
Posted in code, data transfer, open source, sensors | No Comments »
