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Mike Diamond

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Kitchen Roll & Silicon Chips - Easy-to-build 8-Digit LED Clock

My addiction to clocks started a few years back when I got it into my head that I wanted to build a mechanical timepiece. I spent »

Mike Diamond on DS3231 Real Time Clock - 7-Segment - MAX7219 - DS3231 - RTC - Arduino - LED - 18650 - mechanical clock - woodentimes.com 21 February 2017
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Great projects for your spare Raspberry Pi - Part 2 - Searching for Aliens

This is the second project in my series Great Projects for your Spare Raspberry Pi - Serving a Community. The first project in the series, Contributing »

Mike Diamond on Raspberry-pi - raspberry pi - SETI - SETI@home - SETI Institute 30 January 2017
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Great projects for your spare Raspberry Pi Part 1 - Flightradar24 - Live Worldwide Aircraft Tracking

What to do with a spare RasPi? At the last count, I had eight Raspberry Pis at home. I bought my first one a few weeks »

Mike Diamond on raspberry pi - Raspberry-pi - flightradar - flightrader24 16 January 2017
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Light Your Menorah (Hanukiyya) or Christmas Tree Remotely from your Phone

A word of warning Before I begin, a word to this blog's regular readers. This post will likely be read by people with little background in »

Mike Diamond on blynk - raspberry pi - Raspberry-pi - LED - Hanukkah Menorah - home automation - remote control - WiFi - screen bash - hanukka - Hanukkah - Hanukkia - E-hanukkia 12 December 2016
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Install the Arduino IDE (with ESP8266 support) on a Raspberry Pi

A couple of weeks ago I set up a new bench in my workshop. It was a great new space, but each time I wanted to »

Mike Diamond on Arduino - arduino IDE - raspberry pi - Raspberry-pi - ESP8266 11 November 2016
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Quick and Easy Hack of the ESP8266-01 USB Adapter

We all know how fidgety it is to flash the ESP: 3.3 volts only, smoothing capacitors, GND-GPIO 0, VCC to CH_PD. Wouldn't it be »

Mike Diamond on ESP8266 - ESp8266-01 - Flash - hacking - USB - adapter 03 November 2016
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How to Protect a Rasperry Pi from a Powered USB Hub

As most readers of this blog probably know, there's a limit to how much current you can pass through a Raspberry Pi. When used with a »

Mike Diamond on USB - raspberry pi - Raspberry-pi - usb hub - backfeed - backpower 28 October 2016
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Pinning down an unlabelled 8 x 8 LED Matrix

A couple of months ago, during a visit to foreign shores, I picked up an 8x8 LED matrix. What caught my eye was that it was »

Mike Diamond on Arduino - Max 7219 - matrix - arduino nano - DS3231 Real Time Clock - 1088AS - 8x8 matrix - LED - LED MATRIX 24 September 2016
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Your cable may be cutting your power supply's output by more than half. Here's why.

One of the first posts to appear on this blog was Amir's very informative description of the workings of the cell phone power supply (charger). In »

Mike Diamond on charger - charger doctor - Raspberry-pi - kodi - cable - power supply - mobile phone - USB 28 August 2016
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Quick & Effective Low Cost Home Protection with Raspberry Pi and ESP8266

It's vacation time, and like everyone else, I wanted to protect my home while I was away. I don’t have a dedicated alarm. (Prospective burglars »

Mike Diamond on ESP8266 - ESP8266-12 - ESp8266-01 - raspberry pi - blynk - python - motioneyeos - PIR - passive infrared senser - remote control - home automation 31 July 2016
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