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Slow winter coming up?

24 November 2024 at 4:11 pm

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RadSense 1 launch, lessons learned, new tools

20 August 2024 at 8:47 pm

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IoT, industrial sensors & Maketronics first product

16 August 2024 at 8:48 am

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Implementing Over The Air (OTA) updates with ESP32

14 August 2024 at 9:59 am

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We won’t repair that. Just throw it in the trash?

28 July 2024 at 12:22 pm

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Making products for sale

19 March 2024 at 9:25 am

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ESP32 C3 gotchas

21 January 2024 at 3:14 pm

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Pinout for LC8805B-1515

22 September 2023 at 3:53 pm

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Testing presence / occupancy sensors

12 September 2023 at 2:51 pm

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Kicad settings for cheap PCBs

08 September 2023 at 3:06 pm

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Brightsign GPIO connector

28 August 2023 at 4:03 pm

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Project updates

03 May 2023 at 7:27 pm

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Solving PlatformIO issues with the Adafruit Feather S3

22 January 2023 at 6:25 pm

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What module to use in your IoT lectures?

15 September 2022 at 8:33 am

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Why is everyone promoting JLCPCB?

31 May 2022 at 7:13 pm

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Using Feather RP2040 with Adafruit’s Music Maker FeatherWing

20 April 2022 at 9:15 pm

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The DENT Crush Candy Marble Run

24 January 2022 at 10:02 pm

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Solution: Arduino and TeensyDuino IDE crashes on startup

18 August 2021 at 11:24 am

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ESP32 and the OV2640 camera module

31 July 2021 at 10:38 pm

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Guru Meditation Error: Core 0 panic’ed (LoadProhibited)

30 April 2021 at 3:11 pm

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That weird year (2020)

19 March 2021 at 11:05 am

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Teensy 3.6 design files in Kicad

17 March 2021 at 2:34 pm

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Pranking the pranksters

21 January 2021 at 5:08 pm

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Setting up HiveMQ

18 November 2020 at 10:34 pm

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Kicad plugin that can shave hours off your PCB layout

29 August 2020 at 6:15 pm

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Kicad bug: Pad too close to pad

18 July 2020 at 4:57 pm

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Teensy 3.2 Kicad example

05 July 2020 at 3:32 pm

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LX9300H Happy Birthday song module

14 June 2020 at 12:01 pm

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Jinhan JDS6052S Review - a 50Mhz portable Oscilloscope @ $100?

12 May 2020 at 7:44 pm

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ST7789 library for Particle Photon

07 May 2020 at 10:21 am

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Implementing USB Type C and USB 3.1

27 April 2020 at 3:10 pm

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USB Type C (and USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 & 3.2)

24 April 2020 at 4:33 pm

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Hall sensor testing

14 January 2020 at 8:41 am

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HiGrow afterthoughts

24 November 2019 at 6:39 pm

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Testing Capacitive soil moisture sensors

28 October 2019 at 5:33 pm

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StLink v2 problem: Wrong device detected

01 October 2019 at 8:39 pm

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How much solar will your IoT project require?

18 September 2019 at 4:06 pm

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ESP32-based LoRa

10 August 2019 at 4:29 pm

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DHT11 and DHT22 testing

07 August 2019 at 1:28 pm

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NeoPixel Wing for Feather

26 July 2019 at 12:55 pm

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IoT hardware control

25 July 2019 at 12:51 am

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BioLite SolarPanel 5+ review

24 July 2019 at 11:03 am

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Review of HiGrow ESP32 moisture and temperature sensor

20 July 2019 at 11:09 pm

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Working with Pneumatics

01 April 2019 at 9:01 am

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Velleman KA05 / VMA05 pinout

28 March 2019 at 11:49 am

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General PCB design tips

07 January 2019 at 12:02 pm

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Persistence of Vision with APA102

05 January 2019 at 8:27 pm

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Getting started with STM32F0

04 January 2019 at 8:35 pm

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Xmas cleaning and new workspace

31 December 2018 at 10:05 pm

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MegaMatrix 1.0

18 December 2018 at 12:37 pm

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Particle memory limitations and workarounds

18 September 2018 at 10:57 am

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Level shifting NeoPixels for Particle Photon

14 September 2018 at 9:08 pm

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Odd Particle Photon error messages and what they can mean

23 May 2018 at 10:54 am

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Easter funtime with KiCad

06 April 2018 at 8:48 pm

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Embedding myself in devices

19 November 2017 at 10:58 am

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Basic Blink example for dsPIC30F4013

20 November 2016 at 7:25 pm

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Makeblock mBot review

02 September 2016 at 6:13 pm

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Playing with LoRa radio

30 July 2016 at 12:45 am

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Milling 2-sided PCB’s

08 January 2016 at 2:59 pm

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Beta testing for Makeblock

01 April 2015 at 8:39 pm

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ESP8266 and stability

24 March 2015 at 7:16 pm

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Spark Core shows solid magenta LED

12 March 2015 at 6:39 pm

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Teaching with robots

20 October 2014 at 1:20 pm

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Making a custom 3D printer controller

20 August 2014 at 8:12 am

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Project: Makeblock 3D printer

13 July 2014 at 11:33 pm

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Project: wifi-enabled RGB LED displays

08 July 2014 at 11:38 am

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X/Y robot with MakeBlock (Part 1)

02 February 2014 at 1:17 am

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Time for Maker Faire again!

13 January 2014 at 10:02 pm

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Raspberry Pi or Arduino?

05 November 2013 at 10:42 am

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Making a scale for Arduino with INA125

03 June 2013 at 8:42 pm

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Project: pressure sensitive floor

28 May 2013 at 1:02 pm

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Custom PCB’s with Fritzing

27 May 2013 at 11:31 am

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My first PCB - a DS1307 based realtime clock

14 March 2013 at 5:32 pm

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Meetup Pocket Sign

08 March 2013 at 10:55 pm

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A two dollar programmable FM radio

07 January 2013 at 5:45 pm

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Tutorial: making Gravitech’s MP3 Player add-on work

08 December 2012 at 3:29 pm

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How to update the official Arduino Wifi Shield

02 November 2012 at 11:18 pm

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JY-MCU Pro Mini (made in china)

21 October 2012 at 11:21 pm

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Heated Build Platform for Ultimaker

19 June 2012 at 7:30 am

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Updated ADXL345 library for Arduino 1.0

13 April 2012 at 1:15 pm

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Using your Arduino as an ISP

26 March 2012 at 9:15 pm

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RGB LED - Common Cathode or Common Anode?

05 March 2012 at 9:25 pm

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The economics of electronics

19 February 2012 at 11:26 pm

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Making a Blinky cube

17 February 2012 at 2:03 pm

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Racing along with Make:Electronics

15 February 2012 at 12:51 pm

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Make:Electronics - Experiment 20

14 February 2012 at 12:45 am

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Make:Electronics, experiment 18

13 February 2012 at 10:56 pm

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Make:Electronics, experiment 15

07 February 2012 at 11:30 am

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Back to electronics and Arduino

31 January 2012 at 2:19 pm

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Make:Electronics, experiment 14

24 January 2012 at 3:41 pm

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Make:Electronics training

17 January 2012 at 9:36 pm

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ST7565 display and app idea

15 January 2012 at 10:59 pm

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IR Remote Control

09 January 2012 at 10:24 pm

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Arduino: The Documentary

06 January 2012 at 11:23 pm

What I like and dislike with the Arduino kit’s I got

05 January 2012 at 5:47 pm

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Controlling 24 LEDs with shift registers

04 January 2012 at 12:00 pm

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“Piano” toy for Vera

03 January 2012 at 11:59 am

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Rotary encoder setting RGB LED color

02 January 2012 at 11:59 am

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Xmas fun for the kids

01 January 2012 at 10:35 am

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First test with Arduino

21 December 2011 at 10:35 am

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