Oh My!  It has been over 4 months since my last post and some readers may be thinking that I have fallen off the planet. Not quite, but I have been very involved otherwise. Real life is intruding a lot lately and most of my hobby time has been absorbed in supporting the local maker group with teaching robotics to kids. The robotics has gotten me very...

I recently received a Raspberry Pi 3 kit from Kano (kano.me) and thought I should give it a review. The kit includes:       ●  Raspberry Pi model 3      ●  8GB microSD card preloaded with Kano OS, projects and games       ●  Wireless keyboard with touchpad      ●  Case with built-in speaker and LEDs      ●  HDMI cable       ●  Power supply and cable ...

By popular demand - some more details about my Hot Tub Controller project. See the post about my Hot Tub Controller. Controller Source Code Can be found on github - https://github.com/tedhale/hottub.git You can pull it from this address using the git command, or just go to this address and click the "Download Zip" button. [Add web interface source...

The latest version of the Pi is out and as expected, it has a faster CPU. Version 2 had a 900MHz Cortex-A7 chip. Version 3 has a 1.2GHz Cortex-A53. Still quad core and a little faster, but the big difference is that the A53 is a 64-bit processor where the A7 was 32-bit. We will have to wait for an OS upgrade to take advantage of that, but I doubt having...

Hot Tub Controller Circuit BoardThe original version of my hot tub controller starting having some problems which ended up being caused by an animal chewing through the control cables. I never liked having that huge bundle of cables running all the way across the back of the house, so I now have a new controller in a waterproof enclosure mounted right...

There is much hype about the "Internet of Things" and the Raspberry Pi is increasingly used as an IoT controller. To describe it simply - if you have a web site accessible from anywhere that displays data from a device and/or allows control of  that device - then you are part of the Internet of Things. I have a smart thermostat that allows me to control...