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 [...]
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Day to day life has got in the way of my projects recently but ive finally found time for a very quick and cheap Board Soldering aid with mainly things i had laying around. This is really quick and easy to build and i have personally found this very useful when soldering. [...]
October 16, 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
As mentioned in my previous post i have been trying out the bv508 mcu with esp8266. Check out it Here Im currently working on a web based monitoring system for a friend and came to a problem with the ability of regularly changing the WiFi settings. [...]
September 13, 2015
I recently bought a Internet of Things kit from byvac electronics and was surprised how easy it was to push data to my Things speak account with just a few lines of code !. [...]
August 20, 2015
A while back i was given a pair of Mission book shelf speakers which had been painted in the past but best of all for free! . The Speakers, tweeters and grills were in good nick and sounded good but just didn't look very nice. I always wanted a set of oak speaker cabinets to match my lounge furniture and decided to investigate if i could re-cover the speakers in oak veneer to achieve the look i wanted. [...]
April 11, 2015
Here's an example of how to build a python based web server usingflask library to control a LED via form button. Do take a look at my music server post for an application - I used a similar webapp to control functions as reboot , shutdown for my music server.The following guide is written assuming the reader has a basic understanding of Html, Raspberry Pi and python scripting. [...]
March 3, 2015