Hardware

Pololu Balboa (balancing robot)

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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...
- 20 Apr 2018
Electronic Diet - Engineering a Solution

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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, ...
- 25 Mar 2018
Electronic Diet - part 2

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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...
- 23 Mar 2018
Electronic Diet

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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 ...
- 22 Mar 2018
ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Discoveries

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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...
- 12 Jan 2018
2017 Activity

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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...
- 8 Jan 2018
ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Issues

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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 ...
- 7 Jan 2018
ESP32 and Mongoose OS - First Application

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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...
- 5 Jan 2018
ESP32 and Mongoose OS - Intro

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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...
- 5 Jan 2018
Rear View Camera ver 2.0

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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...
- 21 Dec 2017
Jumper Cables

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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...
- 1 Nov 2017
ATTiny Fuse Resetter

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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...
- 15 Oct 2017
Power Calculations

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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...
- 17 Sep 2017
What went wrong

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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...
- 15 Sep 2017
Meter Lead - JW special probes

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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...
- 14 Sep 2017
De Soldering

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Some time in 2015 there was a discussion about Soldering and De-Soldering, and what some members owned or used. At work we have PACE desoldering stations, but they are rather large, and the consumables are relatively expensive.Personally I find ...
- 22 Jan 2017
Rear View Camera

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Despite my hectic schedule, I seem to have required to add this to the list ... rather much higher than I wanted. TentingFor most of my life we went camping in tents.In the early days, my mother had made small pup tents with a fly over the...
- 26 Oct 2015
Vehicle Immobiliser Repair

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One of the advantages of having some knowledge of electronics, is the ability to save money on repairs.Over the years I repaired a few houshold appliances, simply by knowing where to find information and narrowing down the problem. Informa...
- 4 Mar 2015
Mounting 2

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After many delays I have made some progress toward the physical mounting of the camera and Solar panel.The previous blogs detail the plan (and any variations)Pi Webcam Pi camera update RPi to controller interaction Camera Location and Mounting Mounting c...
- 16 May 2014
Mounting considerations and revision

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Since my last post, I've been doing other projects including the Catch Santa Challenge and this security style camera controlled by an external modified PIR.This was a very useful challenge and gave me time to experiment and play with the camera ...
- 23 Mar 2014
Camera Location and Mounting

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This is part of my project to fit a solar powered RaspberryPi webcam at Mt Lyford that starts here An excuse for a field trip (to a skifield) on a nice day, is not to be missed, however this trip was all business, with a couple of other things t...
- 25 Aug 2013
RPi to controller interaction

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Processes, Applications and FunctionHaving resolved some of the hardware issues, it's now time to put some thought into how the whole thing will work.The controller has overall control because it runs 24/7, but could go into a sleep mode when the sys...
- 14 Aug 2013
Pi camera update

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My solar powered PiCamera installation took a step closer yesterday with the link options resolved.LinkThe WiFi link for transferring the data requires a directional antenna.The Antenna design needs to be rugged to withstand the hostile environ...
- 7 Aug 2013
PI RACK

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I was fortunate to get my hands on an early release of the PiFace PiRack. (I prefer to use the small i in the blog) This has been mentioned in the PiFace documentation, but there was little other information. The PiRack is designed to exten...
- 5 Aug 2013
Pi Webcam

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I was fortunate to receive a Pi camera to use as a webcam.This is no ordinary straight forward project but is located on a skifield www.mtlyford.co.nz. To add to all the problems associated with the environment, the location has no cabling for p...
- 3 Aug 2013