Smartwatch Part-1 (Real Time Clock)

Hi guys, It's been a long time since my last post. Actually I was busy in making my smartwatch project. Guess what I have already interfaced and written the drivers for the RTC, Display, IMU. And I have successfully created a clock displaying date and time on the display. I will guide you on how to build this smartwatch yourself through a series of blog post. So keep watching and happy learning.

Android App to connect to Thingspeak

Hi, everyone. Few days back we learned how we can upload data to Thingspeak cloud IoT platform. But it is very tedious job to every time open the web browser and insert command or data. So today we will develop an android app that will do it for us. It is recommended that you go through the Thingspeak documentation first. Ok so let's get started.

IoT Data Logging using Beaglebone Black and Thingspeak

Did you ever imagine that you could implement Internet of Things aka IoT with just 21 lines of coding? Yes that's true. In this post I will guide you on getting started with IoT and using cloud based services like Thingspeak for online data logging. Lot's of talk so let's get started.

IoT using Beaglebone Black

IoT or "Internet of Things" the next big thing in technology is going to change the existence of electronics. In this new world not only us but our homes our gadgets our cars and whatever tiny things we can't live without will be connected to the internet. So no matter where you are you can always feel at home. You can always control and monitor your device. So let's see how we can do that using our Beaglebone Black.

How to Increase Memory of Beaglebone Black

Ya I know the previous versions of the Beaglebone Black has only 2GB of eMMC memory out of which the OS takes up 1.5GB. I have done a lot of internet search and read a whole lot of blogs. Finally I got a solution from the official BBB wiki page at eLinux. But still you may face some difficulties in doing it. Since this blog is for the noobs. I will write the steps in a noob friendly way, because I know what mistakes you can make since I have also made the same.

Beaglebone Black Desktop from windows

You own a Beaglebone Black but don't have the budget to get a display, keyboard, mouse or you don't want to populate your one and only USB port on the black with this peripherals, then you have come to the right place.

In this post I will introduce you to an awesome software called TightVNC, by GlavSoft LLC. You can learn more on VNC here.