Stirling engine testing

 

Testing the Stirling engine from aliexpress. 

A Stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by the cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas at different temperatures, resulting in a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work. 

As long as you have the fire, it works like a perpetual motion engine, generating the energy 

Arrives with LED, that can be connected to generator. Link to product: 

https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_AA6qeo

Crypto currency prediction software for main currencies

After long trying and debugging, I finally finished a sophisticated deep learning design, taking in to account many factors. Currently I see who will be a next big market changer. I bet on one of the assets and lets see what will happen. The results should be enormous. I add a button to the up right corner of my blog for these people that want to share my hopes. You can buy my predictions for the next 100 days.
I write in Python.

3D printing - from idea to product.

My 3d printer build (Ord Bot Hadron)

I am using ORD Bot Hadron printer that I built by different parts, ordered from different places. It is rigid and reliable platform and I use it for 3 years now. Here you can see some prints.

Here you can see how it looks like

The print area is 200x200 mm
Lets go to the parts list:

1. The frame you can order from here: ebay link
     It arrives well packaged and easy to assemble
2. Extra motors can be bought here: aliexpress link
3. Excellent auto leveling sensor can be found here: ebay link
4. Control board. I used RAMPS, but later switched to RAMBO - ebay link
5. Power supply here: ebay link
6. Wires are here: ebay link
7. Extruder can be complete or printed and using this hardware: ebay link
8. Hotend is E3D-V6 You can buy it from Filastruder or directly from E3D
9. Heatbed:  ebay link
10. Borosilicate glass I am buying from here: aliexpress link

Beaglebone tslib Ubuntu install

After I installed touchscreen it was a requirement to install tslib for testing.
I installed ubuntu with kernel 4.1 as described at http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu
Here are the commands for tslib install

sudo apt-get install libtool unzip automake

wget https://github.com/kergoth/tslib/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd tslib-master
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo su
cd
nano .bashrc

Add to the end of file

export TSLIB_FBDEVICE=/dev/fb0
export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event1
export TSLIB_CONFFILE=/usr/local/etc/ts.conf
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/

nano /usr/local/etc/ts.conf


Uncomment line: module_raw input

Reboot the board.

Now test the tslib

sudo su
ts_test

Robot dance troupe.

Check out "Robot dance troupe." on Indiegogo http://igg.me/at/robotdance/shre/6837489

LCD with HDMI and USB capacitive touch

Boneleds - RGB Leds at the beaglebone

Beaglebone has 6 PWMs. It can be used by 2 RGB LEDS for some illumination. I wrote a program that slowly changes the colors.

Wiki is available at http://elinux.org/Boneleds

Beaglebone black as 3G router or wireless access point with 3G connection

Here are things that I found at my storage.

- Beaglebone black

- HUAWEI E220 3G modem

- D-Link DWA-140 wireless N USB stick

- USB hub

Lets make a 3G Wireless AP from this.
All drivers should be enabled in kernel as modules and all devices should be recognized. I tested it with kernel 3.15

1. Get device id with lsusb

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 2001:3c15 D-Link Corp. DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B3) [Ralink RT5372]
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem / E230/E270/E870 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0605 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

2. Install ppp

sudo apt-get install ppp

3. Install umtskeeper

wget http://zool33.uni-graz.at/petz/umtskeeper/src/umtskeeper.tar.gz 
sudo tar -xzvf umtskeeper.tar.gz
sudo chmod +x umtskeeper

4. Get sakis3g

sudo wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/vim-n4n0/sakis3g.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fvim-n4n0%2Ffiles%2F&ts=1363537696&use_mirror=tene~t" -O sakis3g.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf sakis3g.tar.gz
sudo chmod +x sakis3g

5. Try to connect with sakis3g

./sakis3g --interactive

After some scripts running you should be connected. You should know user and password for your operator.
You can test the connection with

ping -c 4 www.google.com

Now try to run the script from command line

./umtskeeper --sakisoperators "USBINTERFACE='0' OTHER='USBMODEM' USBMODEM='12d1:1003' APN='CUSTOM_APN' CUSTOM_APN='safaricom' SIM_PIN='1234' APN_USER='saf' APN_PASS='data'" --sakisswitches "--sudo --console" --devicename 'Huawei' --log --silent --monthstart 8 --nat 'no'

A few remarks about this command:
in USBMODEM put device Id from lsusb
CUSTOM_APN - access point name reported by sakis3g
SIM_PIN - pin code if it exists
APN_USER/PASSWORD - user name and password for your 3g provider

If it works - put it at the end of /etc/rc.local

PATH_GOES_HERE/umtskeeper --sakisoperators "USBINTERFACE='0' OTHER='USBMODEM' USBMODEM='12d1:1003' APN='CUSTOM_APN' CUSTOM_APN='safaricom' SIM_PIN='1234' APN_USER='saf' APN_PASS='data'" --sakisswitches "--sudo --console" --devicename 'Huawei' --log --silent --monthstart 8 --nat 'no' &

At this point you can restart the beaglebone and make sure that you have the 3G internet.

6. Install hostapd and configure it

sudo apt-get install hostapd
zcat /usr/share/doc/hostapd/examples/hostapd.conf.gz | sudo tee -a   /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

Change in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

ssid=NAME OF YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK GOES HERE
channel=10
wpa=2 # This sets the security settings to WPA2
wpa_passphrase=PASSWORD FOR NETWORK GOES HERE
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=CCMP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

7. Ad to the end of /etc/network/interfaces

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
address 192.168.8.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

At this point you can restart your beaglebone and make sure that you can connect to wireless access point.

8. Set the routing tables.
Enable routing in kernel. At the /etc/sysctl.conf change the following

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Beaglebone should be restarted after this step.

Now set the routing tables

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -o wlan0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o ppp0 -j ACCEPT

You should be able now to connect to the acces point and surf the internet.

For make the routing tables permanent:

sudo sh -c "iptables-save > /etc/iptables.ipv4.nat"

Now edit the file /etc/network/interfaces and add the following line to the bottom of the file:

up iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.ipv4.nat

That's all. Enjoy your beaglebone.

Links used:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-as-a-3g-Huawei-E303-wireless-Edima/
http://seravo.fi/2014/create-wireless-access-point-hostapd
http://elinux.org/RPI-Wireless-Hotspot

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Alcdcape - 7" LCD cape for beaglebone 1024 x 600

OpenGl demos on beaglebone black with nh5cape

Released patches for nh5cape - LCD 5" cape for beaglebone.
http://elinux.org/Nh5capeSoftware

Next bot, waiting for the brain

3D printed. ABS. Ord bot Hadron. Work in progress.

LCD cape V2

New board design.
5 inch LCD for beaglebone / beaglebone black. 
Resolution: 800x480, 24 bit color, PWM backlight control, 10 points multitouch capacitive touchscreen, 4 user buttons. Power is taken from the beaglebone. Consists of 3 boards - stackable cape for beaglebone, LCD with adapter, board with buttons. 
It can be bought here: Auctiva store

3d printed LCD case

LCD 10.1" B101UAN01 with HDMI input from ebay. Selller chinatobby2011. 1920x1200. Works perfect. But it is missing case. After some work case is printed. The LCD is very large for printing case for it in single part. It exceeds my Ordbot maximum dimensions (200x200 mm). So i assembled it from the smaller parts. 4 sides and back printed separately, mounted with 1.5mm self tapping screws.

It shipped like this.

Case for the boards

Case for LCD mounted

Everything is mounted

XBMC working.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:333734

Heatbed auto level.

Just set up auto leveling in my Ord Bot Hadron. Works perfect.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:304512

RAMPS Arduino death

So after 3 month of my 3d printer working - one day it stops to communicate with PC. After some research - the dead 5V regulator is found at Arduino board. I run it at 14V because of heatbed. The voltage at the heatbed is 12V only when I put 14V from the power supply. 2V drops on wires to the heatbed. So I must put 14V from the power supply. I replaced regulator with LP2950L 5.0. It is getting hot, but works for 2 week now.

The Project Release (LCD cape)

Everything is ready. Project is online.

http://igg.me/at/nh5cape/x/6837489

LCD cape final prototype

Just received a backlight board. Everything works including backlight in Android. Soon will be for sale.