Projects

Movdeez is my movie collection and rating website. Ratings The primary concept behind Movdeez is that rather than assigning ratings based on an arbitrary scale, users rank movies against all the other movies they’ve previously ranked. Over time they build a list of what they’ve seen, ordered by which they think is best. A user’s rating is determined by where the movie is on their list. Movies at the top of the list get a 10 and movies at the bottom of the list get a 0, with everything being ranked linearly between. This gives an even distribution across the rating scale and ratings are clearly relative. ...

In my previous post about Learning Raspberry Pi Hardware, I wired up a few simple LEDS. Now it’s time to step it up a notch. Even More LEDS Actually, we’re just keeping it at the same notch for a moment. We need to use an “LED Bar Graph”, which is a compact set of ten LEDs. Here it is all wired up. The white jumpers take power from various controllable GPIO pins to the upper half of the breadboard. The LED bar bridges from the top half of the board to the bottom half. Resistors bridge that side to ground, just like the single LEDS. ...

I became interested in the hardware side of Raspberry Pis a couple weeks ago. We have this thing at work called “Hack Week”. Everyone spends a few days on things unrelated to their normal project work. The theme of this recent week was IoT and edge computing. Everyone was given a Raspberry Pi Zero to hack with. Most people only used the Pi incidentally, including myself. There were a couple teams that came up with some interesting ideas using cameras. One team used a microphone. ...