4 x DL3416 Display
I've always liked these type of bubble displays and have picked up various ones over time. Recently I decided to put some to use and so built this to test them out.
The goal was to get 4 of these displays on a board and control...
3d Printed Moon Lamp With Base and ESP8266
I saw some 3d printed moons online one day so decided to make one. I looked at a few on Thingiverse and ended up printing this one first:
It turned out pretty well. After it printed I made a base for it...
Wii Balance Board Smart Scale ( w/ ESP32 )
People have used Wii Balance Boards before as scales. The projects I saw were typically paired with a phone or a Raspberry Pi via bluetooth and the data was handled by those devices. I didn't want to go that route but instead wanted...
Nixie Clock #3
This is my 3rd Nixie clock. I obtained some Burroughs B-5870ST tubes and wanted to make a clock with them. These are awesome quality tubes made in England. The mesh is super fine and the numbers are very well formed. They are nice...
Wall Pluggable Nextion Screen with WiFi
After the last screen experiment I wanted to try a Nextion screen. These screens are somewhat interesting as you load the GUI onto the screen module itself and interact with the GUI objects programatically from your microcontroller...
Wall Pluggable LCD Touch Screen with WiFi
This is primarily just an experiment with a LCD Touch screen that can be plugged directly into a wall socket. This is using a cheapo touch screen with the ILI9341 display driver and XPT2046 touch driver.
Future iterations will involve...
RFID Door Access V2.0
I made this RFID door system over a year ago and it has performed flawlessly for over a year and still going. It was the first time I made one of those things so now it's time to improve it a bit. The improvements are mostly to do...
M2M : GSM/GPRS to WiFi Bridge
I wanted to expand some ideas about access control so the next step was to incorporate some devices that could be called with a cellphone to initiate some arbitrary action. The unit thus needed some GSM and Wifi capability which was...
Nixie Clock
Over the years my girlfriend has handmade me some awesome and wonderful birthday cards. Wanting to make a Nixie Clock and also wanting to handmake her something that (I think) is nice converges nicely in this project!
Hopefully it...
WiFi Enabled Button
Some time ago I deployed a RFID access system that over time needed a way to arbitrarily open the door from within the office. The way that made most sense to me to handle that was to make a button attached to an ESP8266 module and...
Nixies Part 1
For some time I've been meaning to play with nixie tubes. Recently I decided to do it and went out and bought a bunch of stuff to get going with it.
There's a LOT of people that have used these in various projects (mostly clocks it...
A6 GSM/GPRS Module (Send an SMS)
After figuring out that using a M590E module (see here) in North America was out of the question so I ordered some A6 modules and also a couple A6 dev boards to speed up testing. The dev boards arrived first.
The dev board looks like...
M590E GSM Module
These things are dirt cheap so I picked a few up awhile back and am now getting around to experimenting with them. It should be pretty fun to control things via SMS or get notifications from a defice equipped with one of these.
NOTE...
Remote Receiver for KODI
I used to run KODI on a Mac Mini a few years back and got used to using the basic Apple remote that just had Arrow keys, Select, Play/Pause and a back button. Now I run KODI by way of OpenELEC on an Odroid. I tried a couple remotes...
ALIX 2D13 Router LCD
ALIX 2D13 from PC Engines are boards I have used for numerous years and have had nothing but good experiences with them. Typically I used Voyage Linux and OpenWRT on them. Recently I was thinking about a guest access point I needed to...
