After seeing one of these cheep component testers on Julian's youtube Channel i decided to get one and here's my short review. Prices seem to range between £9.60 - £12 depend where you purchase it from. Available here or Ebay [...]
This was a project that was started a while back but never completed so i finally got round to it :). Hardware Cabinet: The cabinet was made out 6mm MDF and screen bezel , marque and edging strip was 3d printed. 3 white leds light the marque this also has a switch on the rear [...]
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. [...]
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 !. [...]
Finished build / pics... [...]
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 . [...]
Ive always wanted a bench psu but a decent one seemed too expensive so like most hobbiest i been just using a old ATX pc power supply. These re-purposed ATX supplies do the job fine for fixed voltages such as 3.3v ,5v and 12v but i wanted a varible supply above 12v. [...]
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. [...]
The liveview is a bluetooth enabled watch device for use with android by Sony Ericsson . Launched a few years back it didn't seem to really take off, even though recently we are now seeing the introduction of other manufacturers making smart watches. I bought one of these a few years ago on ebay and found it didn't work great with my phone and has been sitting in the drawer until i thought can i use it for something else? [...]
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. [...]
