About me
During the weekends, some people like to paint, to play chess, to cook... I like to develop innovative projects with computers, Internet of Things and robotics, alone or with team partners. This page describes some of my achievements.
Djoro Thermostat
The Djoro Connected Thermostat project has been launched after "Hack the City" hackathon in Toulouse. Our team won the event and we decided to develop the project and to create a startup. It is my larger personal project, developed in 2015 and 2016.
Djoro is not only a connected thermostat. It has a dashboard for heating professionals, it can detect malfunction of the heating unit, it is really smart and anticipates inertia...
Components of the Djoro system
A mobile app
Android and iOS app for end users
A hardware
The hardware thermostat: two devices with wifi and RF connectivity
A webservice
To connect hardware to Djoro cloud service
A backoffice
Service for heating professionals, for configuration, diagnostic and communication with end users
Technologies: Python, Django with REST Framework, PostgreSQL, Ionic/Cordova/AngularJS, Atmel and Texas Instruments microcontrollers...
Djoro is a wonderful result of a passionate team work. Most of the development has been realized by Ivan and I, co-founders of the startup Enersy, with the contribution of our friend Damien and three engineering students, Raphael, Thomas and Jérémy, who helped us on specific functionalities. This was a great experience to work with such a good team! Thanks to everyone!
Toulouse Robot Race
One morning, on spring 2016, a colleague asked me: "Do you still have robots at home? I organize a race on september. The robots will have to run on a 110m loop track, with turns and curves. It is a kind of autonomous driving race."
I answered: "It sounds fun! Let's try!"
I called my robot "Turbot". I've built it on a RC car basis, with a Rasperrby Pi, an Arduino board, a camera and some sensors. After a few tests, I gave up the camera, too difficult to use in outdoors lighting conditions.
Let's keep it simple. Turbot will rely only on a gyroscope and two telemeters.
It worked really well!
Turbot won the race in less than 31 seconds!
Some links:
Watch Turbot in action on Youtube
Watch Turbot and three other competitors on the track
Turbot source code is available on github. You can use this code if you want to build your own Turbot. Readme and technical details are in French, but feel free to contact me if you need information.
Many thanks to my son for his help during the creation of Turbot!
You Made It!
"You Made It!" is a SAAS service to help developers visualize data on a mobile app.
With "You Made It!", it takes only three minutes to send data to a mobile app from a server or from a proto board. For instance in python, it takes only 3 lines. It is really easy! Look at this example code.
from youmadeit import YouMadeIt
# Connect
connection = YouMadeIt('PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE')
# Send a data
connection.sendToMobile('Température Toulouse', 8)
I developed "You Made It!" mobile app in Java (Android native), and the backend in nodeJS with mongoDB.
Don't hesitate to try the "You Made It!" service. It is free! Instructions here:
"You Made It!" is originally an idea of my friend Ivan. He didn't have time to develop it, but I loved the idea, so I decided to build this service. Look at his original pitch:
A demo of YouMadeIt SAAS service:YMI Tower, a modular IoT device
Today, with a few dollars, you can find electronic boards to create IoT prototypes. But you end up with a mess of boards and wires, and you cannot show that to your friends or to your customers. You need an enclosure to put everything inside.
I designed YMI Tower to tackle this problem. It is an IoT device made up of modules that can be combined: microcontroller, LED, push button, display...
With YMI Tower, you can build a beautiful IoT prototype in minutes!
More pictures and files for 3D printing:
YMI Tower enclosure has been designed with Fusion 360. 3D printing files are available under Creative Commons licence.
