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How To Infuse Your Own Gummy Candy

Ingredients

1 3-ounce box Jell-O Gelatin Dessert powder

1 pkg. Knox unflavored gelatin (7.2g)

1/4 cup coconut oil ( infused )

2 teaspoons Sunflower or Soy Lecithin

1/4 teaspoon citric acid

1/4 cup corn syrup

1/3 cup water (room temperature)

You will also need:

2 1-inch silicone bear candy molds

squeeze pipette

1 medium-sized mason jar and a saucepan

Oil cooking spray

  Instructions

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Let's Make Something Together

Let’s Make Something Together

I’m here to share my extensive electronics and technical experience working with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, sensors, motors, lighting, and finishing with CNC machining and 3D Printing.

What would you like to make?  Leave your comment and let’s get started!

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Simulation of role-playing adventure or Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs), similar to NetHack, using basic rules of Dungeons & Dragons with a feel similar to Gauntlet or Diablo.

The pictures and video do not fully capture the brilliant color when seeing it for yourself.

The project makes a visually interesting simulation of a character wandering through a maze, looking for a key and trying to find the door to exit, only to be stuck repeating this for all eternity. Other enemy players try to kill the main character, can pick-up and use items including the key to open the door, resetting the maze. When any character dies, within a matter of time, regenerated with randomly selected base stats; forever stuck looking for potions to stay alive a little longer only to find another key and another door.

This is a new version of an older project: https://www.hackster.io/bitsandbots/existential-crisis-aka-arduinorpg-fdf238

Existential Crisis

  This simulation covers the basic motivation of fighting to stay alive in an effort to find the key hidden in the current map and then locate the door to exit.

Each player has hit-points, armor class, experience points, and can hold up to three items. Each map contains a key, and a randomly selected number of rewards, or items to help the player. Items available are: a potion of healing, a better weapon or magic.

A 64 RGB LEDs in an 8×8 display is used as the ‘viewer’ into the World of the simulation, displaying only a quadrant section of the overall map at one time. As the primary player moves around the map, the ‘viewer’ display moves to the relevant section.

Color Code:

RED – Opponent Player Characters ( Enemies )

GREEN – Main Player Character ( Game Focus )

BLUE – Wall

WHITE – Door

YELLOW – Key

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Mini-Animations:

Find a key

Use a potion

Use magic

Open door using key

Player death

RGB LED Matrix

I have also included numbers 1 – 20 for showing the result of a simulated die roll. However, showing the number each time the player rolls is annoying so this animation has been disabled.

How the Simulation Works

On each turn, a player object executes the function WhatAreMyOptions

Move ( Direction Available: North, East, South, West ) A proximity-check to opponents is made to determine options. Short-term Memory of locations explored. Coordinates of recent moves are stored in the player object in an effort to reduce looping.

Attack: Each player rolls a 20-sided die trying to meet or exceed the Armor Class value of the opponent. Upon a successful hit, the player then rolls a 4-sided die for damage and applies any bonuses. The total damage is subtracted from the opponent’s hit points.

Check Inventory and Use Item: Randomly determined for simulation purposes.

Source-Code – I’m updating the source-code to look less like a collection of notes and more manageable.

Potential for Expansion using I2C

Add additional microcontroller or Raspberry Pi for Neural Network.

Add better controls, such as push-buttons, and even sensors.

Add a sound-effects module

Additional visual displays.

More About Electronics:

Why DIY when you could buy?

Why Arduino when you can Pi?

Making a Lightshow with Arduino

Making Sound Effects with Arduino

Working with Multiple Sensors and Arduino

Using a Raspberry Pi and USB Camera

Using a Raspberry Pi for your own Inventory Management System

More About hydroMazing:

Managing Nutrient Solution Systems

Setup hydroMazing Smart Garden System

Using Arduino to Wirelessly Control Appliances

More About Indoor Gardening:

What is a “Smart” Garden?

Starting a Smart Indoor Garden

Digging Deeper into Indoor Gardening

Indoor Gardening: What can go wrong?

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How To Backup and Restore your Inventory Management System

How To Backup and Restore your Inventory Management System

There are two important sections of The Inventory Management System that need to be backup and/or restore.  The system stores images that are uploaded in a directory within the source-code.  Backup this directory or the entire application to a folder on your file system.

Example:

sudo cp -R /var/www/html/warehouse-inventory-system /home/pi/Downloads/

Backup and Restore Your Database Export A…

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Water Level and Flow Rate Sensors

Water Level and Flow Rate Sensors

When working with water and nutrient solutions it is helpful to have a way to monitor the level of the liquid in its container.  Additionally, it is useful to attach a flow-rate sensor to your water pump which can be used to identify issues such as a clog in the line or a disconnected water line that is pumping out liquid onto the floor.

Connecting these sensors to your hydroMazing Smart Garden…

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How to Get Your Own hydroMazing Smart Garden System

How to Get Your Own hydroMazing Smart Garden System

hydroMazing Smart Garden System is a tool for making it easier to provide optimum growing conditions for successfully growing plants at home. An independent data collection system and web interface located on your own device; not a remote cloud.

If It’s So Amazing… Why Isn’t Everyone Using hydroMazing?

I am the only person developing the hydroMazing Smart Garden System and my income is…

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If It's So Amazing, Why Isn't Everyone Using hydroMazing?

If It’s So Amazing, Why Isn’t Everyone Using hydroMazing?

hydroMazing Smart Garden System is a tool for making it easier to provide optimum growing conditions for successfully growing plants at home. An independent data collection system and web interface located on your own device; not a remote cloud.

If It’s So Amazing, Why Isn’t Everyone Using hydroMazing?

The system isn’t free. I have been working on the system for several years, my income is…

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Using hydroMazing to Monitor your Grow Space

Using hydroMazing to Monitor your Grow Space

The hydroMazing Smart Garden System does not require an Internet connection in order to grow plants.  The Internet access is for you, the user and administrator of the system and any updates that I release.  Data logged by the system is saved locally on the Raspberry Pi where it is processed.

I designed hydroMazing Smart Garden Systemto grow with you as you become more advanced in your growing…

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Controlling Appliances

hydroMazing outside the box

Use Arduino to directly control appliances

Safety Concerns and Highest level of reliability

The Arduino Uno, and variants, should only be used for directly powering peripheral modules and not devices.  Consider the maximum current consumption when determining what is a device and what is a module. A string of lights is more of a device as opposed to a panel indicator…

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Using hydroMazing

Setup and Use hydroMazing

The Controller ( Arduino Nano ) uses 433MHz Transmitter to send codes to remote-controlled AC Outlets or can connect directly via a transistor, MOSFET, or relay.

Web Services Module ( Raspberry Pi ).

Optional Web-Camera ( USB Web-Camera ).

Optional The Advanced Controller( Arduino Nano can connect directly via a transistor, MOSFET, or relay.  Supports additional…

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Using a Raspberry Pi for your own Inventory Management System

Using a Raspberry Pi for your own Inventory Management System

Using a Raspberry Pi for your own inventory management system.

An open-source, inventory management system written in PHP with a MySQL database has no problem operating on a Raspberry Pi.  Initially, you’ll only have local network access, but if you want to allow remote web access, you can.

In order to setup a web interface to access, view, and manage the content of your inventory management…

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Basic Inventory Management System Web Application

Basic Inventory Management System Web Application

I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for the right inventory management system for my work.  I want the system to be relatively simple, straightforward, will only the necessary bells and whistles.  Perhaps, even more important to me is the ability to modify the system to suit my needs.  It’s rare to find an off-the-shelf product that can be modified or enhanced to suit needs.  Fortunately,…

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Configure Your Own Internet Router

Configure Your Own Internet Router

Hook Up Your Raspberry Pi

Connecting all your devices to the Raspberry Pi is very easy, but you want to do it in a specific order so it can recognize all your devices when it boots up. First, connect your HDMI cable to your Raspberry Pi and your monitor, then connect your USB devices. If you’re using an Ethernet cable to connect to your router, go ahead and connect that as well.  Finally, once…

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Programming Time Management

There are a lot of nice tutorials online covering the use of Arduino Uno and nearly any sensor or peripheral device you can find.  Most tutorials focus on using an Arduino Uno (or variant) and a single sensor or peripheral.  In this project, we will be using three sensors.

Download and install libraries:

Connect the BH1750 Sensor Module to the Arduino Nano expansion board.

Connect the DHT22 Sensor

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Multiple Sensors

Let’s start by using an Arduino Nano on an Expansion Board to monitor the indoor gardening environment.  We will measure light intensity, ambient temperature, relative humidity, nutrient/water temperature.

There are a lot of nice tutorials online covering the use of Arduino Uno and nearly any sensor or peripheral device you can find.  Most tutorials focus on using an Arduino Uno (or variant) and…

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Electrical Conductivity Waste Analysis Method

Electrical Conductivity Waste Analysis Method

Electrical Conductivity or E.C. Waste Analysis Method also called ( ECWAM ) is used determine exactly how much nutrients your plants are able to absorb.

A hydroponics system, flood to drain or flood to waste, system using reservoirs that allow you to transfer nutrient solution to the plants and then out to drain or waste.  The E.C of the nutrient concentration is measured prior to going into the…

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Daily Light Integral

Daily Light Integral is a way to measure how much light is available on average to plants for their absorption. Or, as described on Wikipedia, “Daily light integral (DLI) describes the number of photosynthetically active photons (individual particles of light in the 400-700 nm range) that are delivered to a specific area over a 24-hour period.”

For more detailed information see this article, Meas…