
The Essential Breadboard Tool that Nobody Has
How many hours in your life have you spent troubleshooting a project? Knowing your I2C from your SPI You've spent ages connecting a bolognese of wires »
How many hours in your life have you spent troubleshooting a project? Knowing your I2C from your SPI You've spent ages connecting a bolognese of wires »
LoRa is relatively new in IoT. (Actually, not that new, but it's taking time to percolate into the ecosphere.) For those that don't know, LoRa stands »
A few months before Christmas, social media channels start filling with instructions about LEDs for home decoration. Popular software is WLED, a program that describes itself »
Many readers of this blog will know that it's possible to make an oscilloscope/logic analyzer from the Raspberry Pi Pico. Called Scoppy, full details are »
This post is more of a Public Service Announcement that a real "how to" explanation. A couple of weeks ago I acquired a WeAct 2.13 »
I usually start my posts by warning readers that I'm an amateur with no background in coding or electronics. I write these blogs because while I'm »
As I've mentioned so many times in my blog posts, I've never studied electronics or engineering. Consequently, I come at my projects entirely as an amateur »
Most of us use a phone app to see the temperature outside - which is fine if you don't mind receiving a reading from a sensor »
One of the first commercial home automation devices I bought was a hot water boiler switch from Switcher. Like most remote devices, it came with its »
Update November 2022 - it seems that ThingsonEdge didn't make it and the cricket is no longer available. Their web and social media presence have disappeared »
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