A real-time bus display

By thib, in Internet of Things, may 10,2019.

The aim of this week's project is to show you a new application of our Yocto-MaxiDisplay. The application is the following: to display in real time the arrival of local public transport buses.

A wifi-controlled extension cord

By martinm, in Internet of Things and DIY, may 03,2019.

Recently at Yoctopuce, we started to build, for internal use, many small boxes that some wouldn't hesitate to call "Smart Extension Cords", but which are in fact a simple application of the Yoctopuce technology: Wifi controlled extension cords. We thought that you might be interested in knowing how we build them.

Using .NET Core on a Raspberry Pi

By seb, in Programming, april 26,2019.

A few weeks ago, in our post on .NET Core and NuGet, we promised you a post on how to use these two technologies on a Raspberry Pi. So we keep our promise and this week we look at how to write a .NET Core application under Windows and how to deploy it on a Raspberry Pi.

How to detect a person approaching

By mvuilleu, in Measures, april 19,2019.

We have been asked several times which was the best method to detect someone approaching, for example to automatically turn on the screen of an interactive terminal. One relatively intuitive solution is to use a telemeter such as the Yocto-RangeFinder. This can work in most cases, but there are some pitfalls that you should avoid...

The Yocto-BridgeCalibration application

By martinm, in Measures, april 12,2019.

Some time ago, we offered you a small application enabling you to compute the temperature compensation parameters for the Yocto-Bridge. After using it for a while, we noticed that this application wasn't the most user-friendly we have ever written. This week, we set this right and we propose a version which takes you by the hand to guide you in the required process to compute this compensation.