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Easy Music Speaker Projects. NortHACKton. Against my better judgement I took apart some old LiPo batteries so that I could use the single cells for some mesh networking. After a bit of careful solder-suckering I’ve now got three individual 3.7V cells with tabs poking out. Steve sent himself a text, fiddled with some AT commands and then received it on his ublox C027 Internet of Things gadget. While Mark prayed for it to work, Jim made Steve’s lightbulb come on by phoning the embedded board – which duly flashed it’s little LED (not shown in the picture due to poor camera shutter timing). Mat cut out some wood… But was then puzzled it didn’t quite fit together, until Steve pointed out he’d put a key piece on upside down. Jim turned some more things on – like his Lego-encased Raspberry Pi Mat learnt that flashing a light on the end of a pole and waggling it about doesn’t work very well.

And most importantly Steve won a Twix! Then we all went home. Next meeting: Monday 17 March 2014, 7pm. See you there. Nseries - Latest news from Nokia Nseries. Unleash Your Router. PyroElectro News, Projects. INSTEON Projects. Cat works. How Do I Figure Out How Many MegaPixels Are Necessary for Printing a Photo at a Specific Size? Xoxide.com. Home automation server with router. Install the Linux based OpenWRT firmware on the router. The TL-WR741ND instructions can be found here: If you are stuck, start here: After you have a working SSH connection you can proceed. Because of the router (by default) runs the web admin page on the port 80, we need to add a secondary port to serve our custom web site. For that, we need to configure the uhttpd (web server application) configuration file.

Download WinSCP, to simply do this through SSH. Set up a new connection: Host name: normally 192.168.1.1 (by default) Port: 22 User name: root Password: what you gave after installation File protocol: SCP Find this file: /etc/config/uhttpd Copy the following into it: config 'uhttpd' 'secondary' option 'listen_http' '81' option 'home' '/HomeAutomation/www' option 'cgi_prefix' '/cgi-bin' option 'script_timeout' '60' option 'network_timeout' '30' And save it.

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