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Some time ago I posted about my ISP replacing my old fiber modem, with a new one, with a build in router. A quite buggy router, even. I have been calling them a few times, and they are now monitoring the problem, because now it just completely stops, about once daily. Most of the times, … Read more
I want more… Just a few days ago I replaced the firmware on my Sonoff, and immediately after, I wanted more… After looking on their website, I found a version which also had a DHT11 sensor attached, and I then wanted to do something similar, just with a DHT22 for higher resolution (0.1C on a … Read more
Today the PCB’s for my automated cat food dispenser arrived from dirtypcbs, and once again they look gorgeous. Even the ID for the boards got placed under the power supply, so when assembled it it completely hidden. This is also the first time I am trying to put my logo on a board, and it … Read more
Finally the power supply modules arrived, and I could finish the layout. And sizes seems to be fine, and with enough clearance too. My first plan was to just use serial between the ESP8266 and Atmega329P, but I changed that to I2C instead, with a pair of BSS138 for level shifting. A bit more love to … Read more
I needed some light in my living room and decided to make it myself. The lights are some cheap LED strips from eBay with a red, green and blue led on a little cluster. Parts used for this project: Arduino nano Ethernet shield ULN2003 LED strip (20 plastic clips) (3D printer) It is made so … Read more
Today I got my new Ambilight from adafruit. Getting it connected took less than 5 minutes, so I was quickly ready to start looking at how to mount all the LEDs behind my screen. Could use tape… but… Could ziptie it, maybe… Hang it like christmas lights? naaah! Why not 3D print something? Great idea! … Read more
Welcome to this first weekend project! To do this, you will need An Arduino (all models should be usable) Some LED’s Resistors for the LED’s IR receiver IR transmitter And that is about it. Let’s start with connecting the LED’s. Depending on what you got, this method can vary. I wanted some bigger lights, so I … Read more
After seeing quite a few stepper drivers die, I decided to put some cooling on mine, but instead of having the fan running all the time, I made an extra function for it. This new function will turn the fan on when any stepper driver is enabled, and turn the fan back off after a … Read more
One of the things most of my projects always lack, is a easy and slick looking interface. But not this time! To control my home automation system, I first used an app called HttpRemotes for my iPhone, but pretty fast ran into problems. The app itself worked as it should, but was too limited to … Read more
Some time ago, I posted something about a home automation project (click here to read more about how to build this) I was working on, and here it is! It is now working, and put into permanent use in my garage. The next step is to make a bigger version of it, and have some … Read more