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How To Build a Serverless React.js Application with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, & DynamoDB – Part 2

How To Configure your Serverless Backend on AWS This is a continuation of our multi-part series on building a simple web application on AWS using AWS Lambda and the ServerlessFramework. You can review the first part of this series starting with the setup of your local environment at: How To SetUp Your local Serverless Environment You can also clone a sample of the application we will be

David Lopez April 9, 2019

How To Build a Serverless React.js Application with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, & DynamoDB – Part 1

We did not hurt, injur, or maim any animals or ponies throughout the making of this tutorial. We completed all our heroic action sequences in CGI. Furthermore, we are not liable for what you build after learning how to be a Ninja. Never go Full Ulbricht. How To SetUp Your local Serverless Environment You can clone a sample of the application we

David Lopez April 9, 2019

Cardiac Activity Monitor

For a little fun, we decided to tinker with cardiac monitoring and simple prototyping of wave morphology via common components. After we finishing, we wanted to post our little project to share with the world… so if you’ve got a chipKIT lying around and some free time, see if you can build your own pulse meter! In order to build this

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018

Hovalin: 3D Printed Violin

These days, we can make virtually anything out of a few grams of PLA. However, it’s still fairly difficult to print full musical instruments (or even instrument parts) that produce high-quality sound comparable to the kind created by instruments manufactured in a more traditional manner. But that’s exactly what makers Kaitlyn and Matt Hova have done. The hovalin is a completely 3D

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018

The EggBot Challenge

THE EGGBOT CHALLENGE Following the tradition of cracking eggs in celebration of Easter in Greece with the game of tsougrisma (τσουγκρισμα in Greek) we decided to build an EggBot that could robotically draw intricate designs that we fielded from our client partners and staff. So what’s an EggBot? It’s a machine capable of drawing on spherical or ellipsoidal surfaces. You

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018

Augmented Reality Sandbox

AUGMENTED REALITY SANDBOX For a fun project to spruce up our office and interact with our local STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) school programs, we decided to build our own Augmented Reality Sandbox. Originally developed by researchers at UC Davis, the open source AR Sandbox lets people sculpt mountains, canyons and rivers, then fill them with water or

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018

Robotic Bird Flight

ROBOTIC BIRD FLIGHT We’ve always been fascinated by the mechanics and properties of flapping-wing flight… watching birds soar gracefully above us brings out that childlike wish of gliding through clouds from high above. Seeing them fly is amazing, but it’s not that easy to build an ornithopter. The first thing anyone asks when they see an ornithopter fly is, “How

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018

InMoov Leap Motion Control

INMOOV LEAP MOTION CONTROL To have a little more fun with our InMoov Robot we started to investigate immersion control via Leap Motion. From a hardware perspective, the Leap Motion Controller is actually pretty darn simple. The heart of the device consists of two cameras and three infrared LEDs. These track infrared light with a wavelength of ~850 nanometers, which is

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018

Brain Wave Monitor

BRAIN WAVE MONITOR To get ready to make your own Portable Brain Wave Monitor all you need is about 40 bucks and a bit a time and ingenuity. Take a look at our work and see if you can’t make one of your own! Materials: 1 MindFlex – $25.00: eBay is one of the best places to find! 1 Arduino

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018

FarmBot 1.0

FARMBOT 1.0 FarmBot Genesis is the first FarmBot to be designed, prototyped, and manufactured. Genesis is designed to be a flexible FarmBot foundation for experimentation, prototyping, and hacking. The driving factors behind the design are simplicity, manufacturability, scalability, and hackability. Genesis is a small scale FarmBot primarily constructed from V-Slot aluminum extrusions and aluminum plates and brackets. Genesis is

Matt OBrien June 5, 2018