Hyperfine Labs

What is "design-based research"?

Design-based research is a conceptual framework and collection of methods for developing knowledge at the same time as you try to make practical improvements in the real world.

design

Designing "Playcology": A Mixed-Reality Science Game

A mixed-reality environment is one in which the physical world is overlaid or mixed with digital content, such that physical and digital objects can interact. For instance, camera-projector systems can overlay digital content onto a tabletop, and update the projected images as objects on the table are moved around. This

technology

Tutorial: flashing a program to the ESP-8266 microcontroller

I was having trouble flashing my ESP-8266 using an Arduino (it used to work...), so I bought an adapter on Amazon. Here are the steps for using it to flash the ESP-8266.

technology

Building "plug-and-play" Internet-of-Things sensors with Raspberry Pi

I have some leftovers of an earlier generation of sensors from the InSPECT project, and want to get them streaming their data over MQTT (as part of my general IoT-in-a-Box project). Self-identifying sensor/actuator devicesInSPECT has had two main generations of sensors. This first generation connected over USB to a

technology

Using "Internet-of-Things" cameras to create timelapse videos

The following is a technical post about using the Raspberry Pi and a Raspberry Pi camera to create automated timelapse videos. Since this project was part of a larger project to develop an "internet of things" science kit, the goal was to have the timelapse video triggered by an MQTT

technology

Building an "IoT-in-a-Box" with Raspberry Pi, camera and sensors

Recently I've started the project of getting a Raspberry Pi to provide everything I need to IoT-ify my house. The general idea is to have one Raspberry Pi do three things: read and stream data from any connected hardware (including usb-connected sensors, the Raspberry Pi camera, or GPIO pins), run

projects

Tutorial: Making this Website

I'm going to reproduce the steps I took to create this blog, so that I can either do it again in the future, or help someone else do the same.