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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Vastly improve Kodi (OSMC) on Raspberry Pi with a simple change
Of the six Raspberry Pis that perform various tasks around my house, two of them are dedicated Kodi boxes. For more than a year I’ve »
Servo Articulation of Web Cam with ESP8266 01 and Blynk
My Web Cam Can't See We've all been there. We install a web cam, march off to our screen to check what it sees, then come »
ESP 8266 Mailbox Notifier using DeepSleep and Blynk
As a regular reader of this blog I contacted its moderators to present my problem. I live in the upper two floors of a three-story building. »