Super Simple Google AIY Surveillance Camera

Posted by - August 31, 2018
In may 2018, durning the bay area Maker Faire in San Francisco, I bought a google AIY Vision Kit. I did the basics and the tutorials but wanted more. I wanted a basic surveillance camera for my room when I went home to Brooklyn.
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MakeZine ran an article on my 2017 Laser Science Project

Posted by - August 26, 2017

On June 9, 2017, My article on everything that went right, wrong, and totally sideways on my laser cutting experiment for the Simon Baruch “Science Fair” was in the official blog/magazine of Make and the Maker Faire,...
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Mesopotamia

Posted by - February 28, 2017

For Mesopotamia : This page is a great resource, THE WESTERN TRADITION – Episodes #3 Mesopotamia and #4 From Bronze to Iron are really helpful http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html If you prefer YouTube -and you don’t mind...
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Read email from a system pipe into python

Posted by - August 15, 2016

#!/usr/local/bin/python import sys import email full_msg = “” for line in sys.stdin full_msg += line msg = email.message_from_string(full_msg) to = msg fromwho = msg subject = msg #make an emty variable for email body body =...
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Rotate Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Display 180d

Posted by - July 1, 2016

Problem : our 7″ touchscreen is upside-down if you want to rest it on it’s holder. We need to edit the config.txt file to rotate the raspberry pi display sudo pico /boot/config.txt Add the following line to the bottom of the...
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SMS on PI

Posted by - November 22, 2015

SMS on your Raspberry Pi… Adapted from :  http://www.smssolutions.net/tutorials/gsm/receivesmsat/ This assumes you have set up your sim card, wired your modem correctly to your Pi, and are using a terminal program such as minicom. You may need...
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Make Them Blink

Posted by - November 15, 2015

You will need: 4 complete sets of LED’s and wires (see last lesson) The first thing you will need to is connect your negative sides of the wire to any ground cable that is not taken, like 14, 9, 20, or 25. The next thing you will need to do is to...
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