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Album Cover NFC Tag

Album Cover NFC Tag

In previous posts I described how I built these album from 1x1 legos. In this post I will show how I was able to use NFC tags to play the album over the speaker system in the room. Pixel Art.PYI loved playing with Legos as a kid and I

Lego Pixel Art Update

Lego Pixel Art Update

A couple years back I had seen a video where someone had taken vinyl record covers and placed an NFC tag in them so they could tap the cover with their phone and it would play the album over the speaker system in the room. I wanted to take this

Reading List

Antifragile Author: David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Thus Spoke Zarathustra Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Man and His Symbols Author: Carl G. Jung Notes From The Underground Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Human, All Too Human Author: Friedrich Nietzsche The Glass Bead Game Author: Hermann Hesse The Metamorphosis of Prime

NFT Hydroponic Build

NFT Hydroponic Build

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. What is NFT Hydroponics 2. NFT Structure 3. Control Panel 4. Water Environment 5. Air Environment 6. Power Control Box / Lights / Amps 7. Nursery 8. Dashboard / Monitor / Camera 1. What is NFT Hydroponics NFT or Nutrient Film Technique is an active, recycling form of hydroponics. A

Hydroponic Dashboard

Hydroponic Dashboard

To create a dashboard for the hydroponic system I used Mycodo, an open-source environmental monitoring and regulation system. Mycodo runs on the Raspberry Pi and uses a web user interface as the front end The first step was adding the inputs. My inputs included my hydroponic sensors, an API to

Sprout Image Recognition

Sprout Image Recognition

My quest to automate the growing process led me to use machine learning to recognize when sprouts were ready to be moved to the hydroponic system. To start, I soaked rockwool in 1/8th nutrient concentration. Rockwool is the growth medium of choice for NFT hydroponics and is great for

Plant Environment Optimization

Plant Environment Optimization

It wasn't enough for the hydroponic system to be fully automated. It also needed to be fully optimized. It turns out there is more than just light or water and there are several factors that affect plant growth Major factors effecting plant growth: PH Nutrient Level Water Temperature

Clone Propagation Tank

Clone Propagation Tank

My goal is to fully optimize the growing process of plants (Find more about this here https://www.austinjbergman.com/optimal-plant-enviroment/ ). This requires me to maximize the amount of controllable processes in order to limit the levels of error. Each seed is genetically unique. This causes variance in optimal PH,

Pixel Art.PY

I loved playing with Legos as a kid and I recently wanted to try them out again. One of the sets that caught my eye was an image remade with Legos I had recently seen a video where they paired NFC tags with album covers to play the album on

PCB Design

After having completed the wiring of the sensors using jumper cables it became an obvious source of improvement. The jumper cables had done their job at verifying the sensors worked but were less reliable than what a printed circuit board would provide. I had recently started working for a microelectronics

Cornhole Board Build

Cornhole Board Build

This project is possible because my great, great, great, great, great... grandparents moved to Indiana in 1847 and homesteaded 500 Acres. I am now the 7th generate to grow up working on this farm and one of the perks to that is access to woods that run along the fields.

Jeep TJ Unlimited

Jeep TJ Unlimited

A 2006 Jeep TJ Unlimited has been my dream car and in early 2020 I was finally able to get my hands on one. I can't remember exactly what I envisioned owning it would be like but I have a feeling it was something closer to this And

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Tyrannosaurus or Rex for short is my 1 year old Bernese Mountain Dog / Poodle Rex hasn't always been the large ferocious beast he is today. In fact he used to be different kind of handful While my mom and little brother took care young Tyrannosaurus until he was