BlackBerry PlayBook protects your milk from aliens

Using the BlackBerry PlayBook for rapid prototyping

Now user devices are the most profitable investment of money, since offer their owners lightning speed and high performance. This is just great for most users, but what about those who love to do their own hands, whose hobby is prototyping, for example, students? Often, they use conventional devices outside the box, destroy authentic models and are not afraid to mess with their hands to create something new.

Yes, such people are especially pleased with new devices, and experience says that the power of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and its performance are unmatched by tinkerers.

Modern electronics has enough complexity, so do not even think to start development from scratch. It will take good bricks to implement your idea. Surely you will use as many purchased components as possible, and you most likely will not want to be tied to cumbersome personnel.
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Fortunately, there is a BlackBerry PlayBook. It is a powerful and portable tablet, with a great user interface and accessible development tools . It looks like this is the ideal platform, providing a user interface, data processing and more.

So how do you start developing prototype ideas with a PlayBook? Arduino comes to the rescue.

Arduino is a hardware computing platform whose main components are a simple I / O board and a Processing / Wiring development environment. Arduino can be used to create stand-alone interactive objects, as well as connect to software running on a computer.

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The Arduino platform offers a wide range of products, ranging from different Arduino boards with different form factors, to I / O boards (“shield”) that facilitate the connection of external devices. Also worth noting is the number of clones of the Arduino platform itself.

Truly global problem

To restore justice, you must catch a milk thief!

How can you protect milk from aliens? Let's try to photograph the vile milk thief on the PlayBook camera. Unfortunately, the camera of the tablet does not see in the dark, which creates difficulties in detecting intruders in a dark kitchen late at night.

So you need the PlayBook itself, an IR sensor, a servo drive to move the sensor, and the ability to control the servo drive and process the IR sensor data.

Connection

Connect to the tablet in pictures.







Is done.

Implementation

Arduino uses an IR sensor to detect a target. The IR sensor itself is placed on the servo drive and scans the desired area (ie, the kitchen). Data is transferred to the PlayBook, which runs an application that displays a location map and monitors movement. If motion is detected, the application emits an alarm and takes a snapshot.



Now, let's catch the thief and put an end to the thefts of milk! The video shows the operation of the system in action.



Information gathered from Inside BlackBerry Developer's Blog . Unfortunately, the developers have not yet reported technical details. However, they promise to lay out the source code and instructions in the near future.