Technik

Starting with a new hardware platform often has its own issues. The same principle applies also to the Infineon Xensiv Sensor 2Go Kit. Here are the issues I have encountered so far: Wrong silk screen: One pin is marked as NC, but instead some functionality is connected to the pin. […]

Starting issues with the Infineon Xensiv Sensor 2Go Kit

Januar 31, 2019 in Basteln / Schaltungen/ICs / Technik / Uncategorized verschlagwortet Infineon / Optiga / Sensor2GO / XENSIV / XMC2GO von SES

Intel AI Devcamp in Munich

November 24, 2018 in Technik verschlagwortet CNN / Intel / Intel AI / Intel AI Devcamp / ML / Movidius / Munich / TensorFlow von SES

XENSIV Sensors - Getting Started Box IOT from Infineon — During the Electronica 2018 Fair in Munich Infineon was very kind and provided me with a brand new XENSIV Sensors IOT Box. This box is not yet available on the market and will launch probably in Q1/2019. The box features the XMC2GO and XMC1000 bootkit (an Arduino Uno sized ARM […]

My first steps with Infineons XMC2GO

November 18, 2018 in Schaltungen/ICs / Technik / Uncategorized verschlagwortet Infineon / IOT / Sensors / XENSIV / XMC1100 / XMC2GO von SES

Insolvenzbescheid - Panono — In the last 12 month I supported only a few tiny projects, spending less then 50€ all together on crowd funding platforms like kickstarter. Compared to the years before that’s a huge drop. After many unsuccessful campaigns and products that where not as good as in the pitch videos, I […]

6 Lessons I have learned from pledging money at kickstarter.com

Juli 20, 2017 in Allgemeines / Technik / Uncategorized / Welt draußen verschlagwortet Amazon / crowd funding / indiegogo / kickstarter / lesson von SES

plug safe - tool: designspark mechanical — At our home we share a laundry room with our neighbors. In the recent time I have found some evidence that my washing machine has been used by someone else. So I decided to make it a little harder to use my stuff without asking for it. I designed an […]

3D print: Secure your socket plug – with the socket ...

Mai 1, 2017 in Basteln / Gebasteltes / Technik / Uncategorized verschlagwortet 3D print / plug / safe / socket / thingiverse / washing machine von SES

pcb rendering — What is it good for: The IR CAM PI Shield adds infrared LEDs to the Raspberry Pi camera Module. So you can take photos or videos in the dark. Costs: 13$ for PCB manufacturing (for 10 PCBs) -> I have left a few boards, ask if you are interessted. 3$ […]

IR CAM PI Shield

September 14, 2016 in Basteln / Technik verschlagwortet Camera / infrared / IR / PCB / Raspberry Pi / Shield von SES

enclosure design — Introduction A few years ago I received a nice little LED lamp as a bonus in an online order. The lamp had one issue, the circuit was optimized for costs not for lifetime of the LEDs. Initial Ciruit After around of 10 hours of accumulated operation, the LEDs started to […]

How to fix a low cost LED lamp

April 23, 2016 in Basteln / Technik / Uncategorized verschlagwortet 3D printer / Constant current source / DesignSpark Mechanical / LED Lamp / LM3410 von SES

Today I received the brand new Raspberry Pi 2. Soon I will check out, how the extra performance can enhance my projects.

Raspberry Pi 2 just came in

Februar 5, 2015 in Technik verschlagwortet Raspberry Pi / Raspberry Pi 2 von SES

Withings Pulse Pouch in my pocket — I replaced my old Omron pedometer with the Withings Pulse. The OLED display and the design are nice. However it has one design flaw – it’s impossible to attach the little device to your trousers in a secure way. It’s really easy to loose the Withings Pulse with the original […]

Pouch for my Withings Pulse

Februar 26, 2014 in Allgemeines / Basteln / Technik verschlagwortet Pouch / Withings Pulse von SES

I won the TinkerForge Weather Station at the Infineon 2013 online Christmas give-away event. It took a little while for the Infineon reindeer to deliver it, but here it is 🙂 Assembling the kit (it consisting of a handful of laser cut Plexiglas, lots of screws and nuts and of […]

TinkerForge – Weather-Station Kit

Februar 16, 2014 in Schaltungen/ICs / Technik verschlagwortet Brick / Bricklet / TinkerForge von SES

Sit Perfect App — This app (written in Processing) is our entry for the Intel Perceptual Challenge. It tries to help computer users maintaining a better posture. Sit Perfect detects the users face and determines, if the user sits too near or too far away from the monitor. We use the face detection algorithm […]

Intel Perceptual Challenge App: Sit Perfect

September 1, 2013 in Technik verschlagwortet Intel Perceptual Challenge / Posture / SDK / Sit Perfect / Webcam von SES

What could be better to start a Saturday morning, than a cup of tea boiled with the heat of the sun. — Ok, maybe a cruise in the Caribbean 😉 Last month I picked up this used Solar Cooker for around 60€. It has a diameter of about 70cm and […]

Solar Cooker: making some tea water with the help of ...

August 10, 2013 in Basteln / Technik / Umweltmaus / Welt draußen verschlagwortet cooker / Solar / solar cooker / sun / tea / water von SES

In the last weeks I assembled the Hexy robot together. Soon after building everything together I found out, that the power supply is not capable of powering the robots 19 servo motors. I use five Eneloop rechargeable batteries. And even those quality batteries are not able to fully power the […]