About

The blunderbus toolset draws its name from the 17th century weapon. The “Blunderbuss” was a large muzzled firearm which was often load on the fly with random iron scraps or even rock.   This weapon reflects the “hacked together” nature of many DIY electronics projects.  The missing “s” however is not a spelling error but instead refers to a “bus”, an electronic subsystem that transfers data between two computer.

The blunderbus  toolset was developed to streamline the development of projects that require linking low cost micro-controllers to Internet enabled mobile devices.  Users will be able to load the muzzle of the system with all kinds of sensor data and then transfer that data to remote interface that can monitor the data and shoot a response back to the micro-controller.  In order to make the system accessible to both experienced programmers and newcomers alike, blunderbus focuses on making the toolset easy to use and set up.  It is intended that this open source project will expand capabilities of open source hardware platforms whilst remaining true to the nature of  the DIY electronics culture.

blunderbus is being developed as part of Bryce Beamer’s masters thesis at Philadelphia University.  The white paper is available in the news section.

I would like to thank a bunch of people who helped, encouraged and inspired me.  Without your help the project may have been a blunder-bust.

Jason Marziani- Technical Advisor
Richard Thompson-Market Advisor
Wil Lindsay-Instructor
Sherman Finch-Director
Matt Styer
Jorji Ampofo
Bob Lewin
Nick Agnew

David Kaneda- JQtouch Library
Moos- Slider Control Library
John Ryan- Arduino Parsing

Industrial Design Department
Office of Information Resources

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