Fixing Login on Xiaomi Mi Band 2

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 7 years ago in Blogs

This will be a fairly short post. I just wanted to get this out there in case others are working on this over Christmas. I may update this later as things progress. This all occurred yesterday 12/24/2015.My mother received a mi band 2 for Christmas this year, and I was...

Articles from Projects from Tech

Installing TensorFlow 1.4 on Windows 10 with Anaconda

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 5 years ago in Blogs

I had a few problems during my install, so this will serve to document the procedure I used to get it to work correctly. The general install instructions are on tensorflow.org. These instructions may work on other versions of Windows,...

Querying SQLite database using sqlite3 in JavaScript

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 5 years ago in Blogs

MotivationI've never regretted studying mechanical engineering instead of electrical engineering or computer science, but sometimes by lack of formal programming knowledge does bite me. This happened a few days ago when I wanted to see if I could apply some...

Visual Object Recognition in ROS Using Keras with TensorFlow

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 5 years ago in Blogs

I've recently gotten interested in machine learning and all of the tools that come along with that. This post will document a method of doing object recognition in ROS using Keras. I don't want to turn this post into a...

Tracking AR Tags with ROS: Monocular Vision

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 6 years ago in Blogs

If you've found this I am going to assume that you are familiar with ROS. What you might not be so familiar with is AR tags (Augmented Reality Tags). I am not going to go into how AR tags work,...

Installing ROS on a Virtual Machine for Windows

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 6 years ago in Blogs

This is a quick set of instructions for installing ROS Kinetic on a Virtual Machine. This allows you to run ROS on Windows.1) Install Virtual Box from this link.2) Install the Virtual Box Extension Pack for your version of Virtual...

Arduino 101 – Introduction

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 6 years ago in Blogs

This post is about the Arduino/Genuino Board 101 - the Intel Curie Module development board. It is a not an introduction to Arduino, AKA Arduino 101. IntroductionThis post is just a quick introduction to the Arduino 101. I plan to do...

Arduino Interrupt Stepper Driver – CTC Mode

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 6 years ago in Blogs

Introduction to the ProblemThis tutorial will show how to drive a Pololu style stepper (A4988) driver using a timer interrupt. This method is non blocking, efficient, and as far as I know is pretty much what most 3D printer firmwares...

Raspian ROS on Raspberry PI B+ with Downloadable Image

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 6 years ago in Blogs

I wanted to share my image of ROS Indigo for a Raspberry Pi B+. When I tried a couple of images I found online, none of them seemed to work, so I had to make my own. I will warn...

Replacing a Burnt Out MOSFET in an AR6400

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 6 years ago in Blogs

This is a quick post about changing the MOSFET in an AR6400. This appears to be a a fairly common problem people have with RC airplanes such as the Hobbyzone Champ or the Parkzone P51 Mustang. Symptoms include elevator or...

Combining and Trimming Videos Without Re-encoding Using FMPEG

From projectsfromtech.blogspot.com 7 years ago in Blogs

Recently I was tasked with trimming and combining some videos for work. We had filmed 16 hours of lectures and needed to make them ready to be published. Unfortunately the cameras we used split the video into 19 minute segments...