Hardware

Pololu Balboa (balancing robot)

mcb1 — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:28:16 GMT

Open ArduinoEnter Your Project for a chance to win a grand prize for the most innovative use of Arduino or a $200 shopping cart! The Birthday Special: Arduino Projects for Arduino Day!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly...(read more)

Electronic Diet - Engineering a Solution

mcb1 — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 07:24:59 GMT

In the last two blogs, I described the issue I had.Electronic Diet Electronic Diet - part 2 I have a spare car that has an older model alarm system fitted just to provide remote lock/unlock.The car has central locking and uses a transponder key, ...(read more)

Electronic Diet - part 2

mcb1 — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 05:07:56 GMT

In my first post Electronic Diet I explained the title Okay so the title is a bit misleading.I'm not planning on consumming electronics, or removing electronics from my diet (no I don't eat parts) source https://favim.com/image/474959/ &n...(read more)

Electronic Diet

mcb1 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:00:29 GMT

Okay so the title is a bit misleading.I'm not planning on consumming electronics, or removing electronics from my diet (no I don't eat parts) source https://favim.com/image/474959/ I have a spare car that has an older model alarm system ...(read more)

ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Discoveries

mcb1 — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:06:28 GMT

I started diving into ESP32 and MongooseOS back here.ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Intro my first application attempt was realtively painlessESP32 and Mongoose OS - First Application It all seemed too easy until I struck some unexplained issuesES...(read more)

2017 Activity

mcb1 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:28:15 GMT

There were a couple of posts by shabaz and dougw about their posts during 2017.My 2017 Projects/Activities 2017 Summary of element14 Activity I was thinking at the time that it was a large list and far more than I had achieved. 2017 has been a m...(read more)

ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Issues

mcb1 — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:12:58 GMT

I have been dipping my toes into ESP32 and MongooseOS.ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Intro ESP32 and Mongoose OS - First Application These posts hopefully help others, and if nothing else will assist with keeping track of where I'm at. I had great ...(read more)

ESP32 and Mongoose OS - First Application

mcb1 — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 23:41:52 GMT

In my previous post ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Intro I showed how to connect to an ESP32 using Mongoose OS and setting up the WiFi. In this post I want to do something more useful, and control NeoPixels. yesterday I showed Flashing the d...(read more)

ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Intro

mcb1 — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 04:33:06 GMT

A few weeks back I was introduced to ESP32's and Moongoose. The guy running the presentation had been using ESP8266's and some custom code, but had been following Moongoose and its progress.He felt it had matured and with the ESP32 devic...(read more)

Rear View Camera ver 2.0

mcb1 — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:11:57 GMT

Back in 2015 I created a rear view camera for our caravan. Photo source Three Minions (me, myself and I) Rear View Camera While ver 1.0 was functional, it w...(read more)

Jumper Cables

mcb1 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 08:42:31 GMT

Jumper LeadsAll of my vehicles have a set of jumper leads, for that day when you accidently leave the lights on, or someone else that needs a bit of spare energy.The leads are usually purchased from the local retailer "where everyone gets a barg...(read more)

ATTiny Fuse Resetter

mcb1 — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 03:34:34 GMT

The other week I was playing with a Digispark clone, and it turns out that the suppliers have not programmed them correctly. Let me explainWhen Erik created the Digispark, he wanted to use all 6 pins of the ATTiny85 for I/O.Because there i...(read more)

Power Calculations

mcb1 — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:12:44 GMT

After a few years of pause, I decided it's time to return to making this work.(I actually wrote this back in April, and other things took over) The previous blogs detail the plan (and any variations)Pi Webcam Pi camera update RPi to cont...(read more)

What went wrong

mcb1 — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:09:23 GMT

My electronics skills get called upon for all sorts of things. WhatSome years ago a close friend asked if I could help with some LED tailights he was fitting to his Hotrod.He had purchased some american made units that had allowed for tail, brak...(read more)

Meter Lead - JW special probes

mcb1 — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:37:14 GMT

Some time ago jw0752 made contact with me and wanted to send me some of his meter probes.He's been keeping the community up to date as he makes changes to the original concept.Shop Tips - Intrusive Meter Probe For anyone that has...(read more)