Celebrate Sysadmin Appreciation Day With DataYard: July 29, 2016
Beer and Pizza to Celebrate Sysadmins! Here we are again! The last Friday in July is annual Sysadmin Day – a chance to recognize those individuals toiling in the shadowy boiler-rooms of the Internet who keep the world at large running smoothly. We’ll meet at the Dayton Beer Company around 4PM, have some local craft […]
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 […]
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 […]
IOT Roomba Comes to Life
Our summer interns, Jimmy and Owen, have been hard at work on their Internet of Things project. This week they got the Roomba connected to a Raspberry Pi over a serial connection. From there, they can SSH into the Pi over a WiFi connection and issue commands directly to the Roomba, and collect data from the Roomba. Ultimately, 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 […]
Summer 2016 Internship,”Internet of Things”
During the summer of 2016 DataYard will sponsor a summer internship program for college students to explore robotics, sensors, and concepts related to IOT — the “Internet of Things”, hardware and software that uses network connections to bridge physical and virtual worlds. What You Will Do? Our interns will work on a real project that […]