Roomberry Project v.8
This past week brought a great deal of success for myself and Owen as we continue working towards our final goal for this project. Last week we obtained various pieces of hardware, but some of those such as the RFID reader and USB hub for the Raspberry Pi zero didn’t want to play nicely. Coming […]
Roomberry Project v.7
So this week’s blog post is going to be a bit longer than the others because I’ll be talking a lot about the various hardware upgrades that Jim and I have gotten for the project, and our thought process behind them. The first and probably most exciting upgrade for us was going from a Raspberry […]
Roomberry Project v.6
This past week has been yet another successful one for Jim and I. We’ve been making progress on the mounting solution for our DHT22 sensors. We wanted at least three sensors picking up data from different heights, so Jim 3D printed a series of parts to mount a 3/4″ dowel rod onto the Roomba’s body. […]
Roomberry Project v.5
Another successful week has occurred for us working on our Roomberry Project. After successfully implementing our serial tether on Monday, we started putting together the rest of the pieces we had been working on. The biggest improvement came from the addition of our line following IR sensor. Our roomba now follows dark lines, specifically black […]
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Roomberry Project v.4
Coming off of the holiday weekend, we felt pretty good about last week’s success’. We were able to setup our hard-line serial tether on a test board, as well as set it up on a more permanent prototype board. However, a few issues occurred with our permanent version. After we put together the first board, […]
Roomberry Project v.3
Coming off of the rather disappointing results from last week in trying to get a serial connection set up between the Roomba and the Raspberry Pi, we have been able to make loads of progress. Jim made some great headway on getting a hard-line serial tether set up. We were able to successfully tether the […]
Roomberry Project v.2
This past week had major ups in downs in terms of our project’s completion. We had setup a proper serial port connection in order to communicate with the Roomba via Pi, however early in the week we ran into some hurdles and could no longer communicate with the Roomba. Numerous attempts were made to solve […]
Roomberry Project
Our primary objective for this “Roomberry Project” is to adequately gauge temperature and humidity data inside of a data center from various points. To do that, we decided to use the iCreate 2 Roomba platform. Over the past two and a half weeks, Owen and I have successfully gotten our Pi A+ to talk to the […]
DataYard’s 2016 Internship Program – Internet of Things Kick-Off!
On June 1st DataYard officially brought on two new summer interns for a specific and pretty cool project – to explore the Internet of Things (IoT)! The chosen ones – Owen Devine and James Kinion – will be working with us through August to design, build, and deploy mobile units which report not only their […]