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Getting FastLED and ArduinoBLE to co-operate

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I recently finished building an Arduino-driven Nixie tube device, that I’ve called Fermenixie, which uses the FastLED library to control the RGB LEDs that ac...

Get data from a tilt hydrometer on an Arduino

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A tilt hydrometer is a submersible thermometer and hydrometer for monitoring fermentation. It’s a Bluetooth LE device that reports data via the iBeacon proto...

Adventures in ARKit - image detection

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In my previous blog post I discussed how to display a 3D model in a scene. In this blog I’ll discuss how to perform image detection in a scene. Specifically,...

Adventures in ARKit - display a 3D model

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In my previous blog post I discussed how to overlay an image of the earth on a SphereNode, which derives from SCNNode, and manipulate it through touch gestur...

Adventures in ARKit - rotating earth

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In my previous blog post I discussed how to animate a node in a scene. Specifically, I animated a cube by rotating it continuously through 360 degrees on the...