Wireless Firmata using XBees

There seems to be a fair amount of interest lately in using XBee to create wireless Firmata client applications. In such a setup you’d have a single XBee radio connected to a computer running the Firmata client application (we’ll refer to this XBee node as the “coordinator”). You’d have a second XBee connected to your […]

Setup git deploy for AWS ec2 Ubuntu instance

The following instructions are for setting up git deployment on an AWS ec2 ubuntu instance (or any ubuntu server for that matter). Also included are instructions for deploying to the remote server and github simultaneously. Git deploy setup: 1. copy your public key to your ec2 instance: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -i ~/.ssh/your_pemfile.pem ubuntu@your_ip_addr “cat>> […]