Category Archives: Technology

Cellular Webcam Revision 2

Posted on 2020-03-02 by Nigel VH

A couple years ago as I was first investigating IoT plans from various cell carriers, I threw together a small Raspberry Pi based remote webcam and left it in the woods over winter. It worked well for several months, and … Continue reading →

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2019 Balloons Launch

Posted on 2019-06-02 by Nigel VH

2019’s launch included a single balloon which reached 101,433 feet. The flight carried carried a number of student payloads, the 900MHz voice telemetry system, a commercial APRS tracker board, my custom IRIS board, as well as a Raspberry Pi Zero … Continue reading →

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LitePlacer Pick and Place

Posted on 2019-04-06 by Nigel VH

I end up doing a number of PCB designs for various projects. Most are small one offs that aren’t a huge problem to assemble by hand, but there are instances where I have multiple to build, or large boards with … Continue reading →

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CRT Clock Build

Posted on 2019-02-10 by Nigel VH

While it’s not particularly new or novel, I’ve long been interested in setting up an Oscilloscope Clock with one of the various kits that have been available for some time. Over the holidays one of the gifts from my family … Continue reading →

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Cellular Webcam

Posted on 2018-03-04 by Nigel VH

A bit ago I posted about setting up an RPi with cellular connectivity which could be used for any number of ideas. One I mentioned was a remote webcam. I took the basic setup I had shown before, and attached … Continue reading →