Sunday, August 26, 2012

Building an end to end wireless sensor network

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Building Wireless Sensing Networks - using Open Hardware. Over the last couple of days, I have been busy setting up a wireless sensor netw...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Building Blocks for Wireless Sensor Networks

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"Smart wireless sensor networks will bring about improvements to the quality of life, allow greater interaction  with everyday syst...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

WiNode - a technical summary

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WiNode is the first standalone wireless sensor device from Nanode Ltd.  It is aimed at wireless sensing and control applications, and ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Wireless Sensor Networks - a review of devices

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Photo:  the emonGLCD by openenergymonitor.org The second part of a post reviewing what is available to the hobbyist in terms of open s...
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Building Bridges

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The advantage of having 2 weeks off to relax in a Somerset farm holiday cottage is that I now have time for blogging and new design wo...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Oggcamp 12 - The open movement goes from strength to strength

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Oggcamp12 is the fourth meetup of the Oggcamp unconference, this time held in Liverpool at the John Moore University School of Design. ...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Distant Writing

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A strange connection of internet links, which took me from steam engines to steampunk, delivered my attention on a couple of excellent histo...

Curiosity

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In a little over 12 hours time, the latest Mars Science Laboratory, and the Mars Rover Curiosity, will perform the most difficult and risky ...

California Dreaming...

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                You certainly won't fail when you are the nearest restaurant to Pixar Inc. It's been a while since my last post,...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Starting a Tech Company - Week 2 - The Heat is On.

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Starting a new tech company in just 21 days - www.nanode.biz - takes a daytrip to Gloucester and invokes Plan B. Week 1 was just a blur - ma...
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Nanode Ltd - forming a Tech Startup Company in 21 days!

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From it's early beginnings last March, Project Nanode has grown from strength to strength. It was now time to start a company www.nanode...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A £10 Tiny Basic Computer you can build yourself

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Back in August 2010, I came up with the idea of a DIY Arduino built from a few components and an AT mega built on stripboard for about £10...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

More Tiny Basic - the plot thickens

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Since finding Tiny Basic for the Arduino yesterday - by the powers of Twitter and being well connected to some very clever programming pals ...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Tiny Basic running on Nanode - Christmas Challenge

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This is something I have wanted to do for some time - run an interpreted Tiny Basic on the Nanode - so that newcomers can program it quickl...
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

Testing Nanode RF - 4 simple test sketches

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Nanode RF should be tested in simple steps. Before you fit the RFM12B module and Magjack, fit the ATmega328 and the 74HCT125 ICs and apply p...

Building blocks for the Internet of Things.

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Open Source Hardware Building Blocks - Lego for the Internet of Things. Nanode RF - A Web Connected "Arduino Like" Board with Wire...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Teaching Kids to Code and Build

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Britain will drift into the Digital Doldrums if we can't excite a whole new generation of kids to get involved with learning the skills ...