I have recently made an Infomation display for a friend using an ESP32 driving a Nexiton HMI LCD display This is the first time i have used these displays and have been impressed with the results . These are serial based displays that have a HMI that is first designed on Nexiton’s IDE desktop software [...]
Category : Arduino
I recently came across a DPS3005 PSU Module with PC control option , i have used similar modules before in a bench power supply and was impressed with the results . With the launch of a new version that included PC control i decided to order one ! (Banggood.com) A few weeks later it arrived ... [...]
August 6, 2017
Following on my previous (project / Guide) RFID login) , i have been working few improvements to the arduino software example. The biggest change is now having a serial terminal based menu interface. Also a few security concerns have been addressed, this includes limiting the number of wrong tries. As with the previous version not for [...]
December 11, 2016
I wanted a simple way of quickly logging on to my computer without having to typing my password in and did not want to have no security either. There are various products on the market that would solve this problem from fingerprint readers to proximity dongles but i decided to see what i could knock up with parts i mainly already had. Looking in my micro stuff i had a RC522 RFID tag reader 3.3v : Also an 3.3v arduino Leonardo clone aswell based on a sparkfun pro micro which also can act as a USB device such as a keyboard. This is useful as if a 5v arduino was used a level shifter would be required due to the RC522 not being 5v torrent. [...]
May 12, 2016
Finished build / pics... [...]
July 11, 2015
Recently Ive been trying very hard to De-clutter my house . I have a lot of DVDs laying around and my plan is to copy them to a large hard disk and watch them via my home network possibly PLEX . (*Please note i am still keeping the copies of the disks to not break copyright) With so many discs to backup i needed a geek solution as i didn't want to sit at my PC swapping discs all day long. Looking on the internet i found a few people had made auto loaders using 3d printing to Lego . [...]
My first blog post: For the last year or two i have been running a raspberry pi b based logitech media server. The system worked well but with the recent release of the new raspberry pi2 Quad core it was time for an upgrade. Here's an overview of my project . [...]
February 14, 2015