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Electronics

Service-oriented Middleware for Building Automation Systems

I added a brief project overview of the OSGi middleware for building automation systems I developed as part of my bachelor’s thesis. Check it out 😉 Service Middleware for Building Automation Systems

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Electronics

Hardware Design Considerations for Wake-up Lights

I’m working on an automated room lighting system similar to the Philips Hue product line and so far already have LED strips and spot lights with single 3W RGB power LEDs running. What I also want to add is a remote-controlled wake-up light just like those from Philips. My sister got one for Christmas. I […]

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Electronics Games

Presenting VR bike simulator ExcitingErgoRides on Gamescom 2015

This week is Gamescom week! The games convention in Cologne is going to be open for five days from coming Wednesday, 5th August, till Sunday, 9th August, and I’m excited to be there with my university’s project group ExcitingErgoRides! We’ll present the result of our one-year project work, where we’ve been working on a physical virtual reality […]

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Electronics Showcase

Wireless dynamic colour fading on Arduino over Raspberry Pi

Finally reached a big milestone by dynamically fading a wireless RGB light node on an Arduino between two arbitrary colours! The Arduino is connected to a Raspberry Pi over a nRF24L01+ transceiver connection. Over a web app the RPi is sent the new colour to fade to and calculates the required fading data like the […]

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Electronics Tutorials

Using the RF24 library for nRF24L01 on Raspberry Pi with Python 3

Update 21. February 2017 Since publishing this post, the RF24 library got updated a lot! A significant change was making the boost python wrapper compatible with Python 3. So the RF24 library now works on system with Python 3 out of the box without any funky hacks! If you want to use the RF24Mesh extension […]

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Windows

Microsoft Hackathon

Last year I attended my very first hackathon. It was hosted by Microsoft and Adesso, and focused on developing Windows 8 RT and Windows Phone apps. I took the opportunity and tried my luck on the WinJS HTML5 framework for Metro apps. Being completely new to WinJS, creating properly working page transitions already counted as huge […]