Posts Tagged “Fish”

Palantir Box

By | March 17, 2011

Well it took a few rounds to get it right but we finally got a Palantir box cut and put together. It’s made of laser-cut acrylic from RazorLab, superglued (yes I know we should use DCM but..) and with the top held on with magnets. The Arduino fits in quite neatly and is now back […]

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Stuffed catfish

By | February 23, 2011

Both our aquaria have cories (Corydoras) in them, Sterbai in one and Peppered in the other. These mini catfish are peaceful, only a bit shy, and make excellent scavengers with their gravel snuffling. They’re also cute, funny and unexpectedly venomous. So we made we made some stuffed silk ones.

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Arduino article on Make

By | February 14, 2011

The Editor of Make has just posted an interesting little article on why he thinks the Arduino wins as a platform. On a totally unrelated note – the Palantir write up has been updated. Mostly hardware stuff at the moment – more software once it’s done!

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Smart Fishtank

By | February 8, 2011

‘Palantir’ is our project to develop an Internet of Things enabled aquarium equipment monitor. It connects a series of temperature, pressure and various other sensors to an WiFi enabled Arduino. The resulting data is forwarded to a remote server for processing, management and storage, with interfacing to the web and an Android app (with hopefully […]

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