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DIY Get Notifications on Your Phone When Your Mail is Delivered

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DIY Smart Ultrasonic Parking Sensor

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Voice Activated Timeout Timer

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What on Earth is an ESP8266?

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The code below is for connecting your sensor to IFTTT.

DIY Get Notifications on Your Phone When Your Mail is …

Build your own parking sensor to help you park and tie into your smart home to trigger automation actions. Here’s the sketch, or you can download it from github. And here’s the schematic:

DIY Smart Ultrasonic Parking Sensor

When dad life and maker life collide, strange things are invented. Here’s a build I did recently for a voice activated timeout timer that integrates with Google Home or Alexa. View on Github

Voice Activated Timeout Timer

What is an ESP8266 and why do you want to use one in your next DIY project? Check out this video to learn more and get inspired to create something new!

What on Earth is an ESP8266?

I’ve been using capacitive touch sensors in a number of my projects recently and just wanted to share a really quick and easy way to build one for yourself that works with Arduinos. You’ll need: Tin foil An arduino capable development board (https://amzn.to/2BUbDRU) 10k Ohm (1k – 1M all work) […]

DIY Capacitive Sensor for Arduino

I’ve been making a lot of little IOT projects recently and so far I’ve integrated everything with Home Assistant which has been a lot of fun and allowed me to quickly set up automations and dashboards, but I keep seeing people referencing Node-RED so I thought I’d check it out. […]

Setting up Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

If you’ve installed an image like Raspian, OctoPi, or RetroPi you may have noticed that it started broadcasting an mDNS entry for raspberrypi.local on your network for ease of access. Now if you’re like me you’ve probably collected a couple for various projects so to avoid having to assign static […]

Change the mDNS name on your Raspberry Pi

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I ordered these displays (GM009605 v4 similar to https://amzn.to/2QTTbTW) on a whim direct from China when I was ordering the Wemos D1 Minis. As with most things coming direct via China I had a hard time finding data sheets or any meaningful support documentation. Good information is one of the […]

I2C OLED Display on a Wemos D1 Mini

Tis the season to bake cookies. Gir is my spirit animal, and since I didn’t find any Gir related cookie cutters on Thingiverse.com I decided to fill that confectionery void with something of my own creation. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3272184 I’d previously traced the popular “Gir Riding Piggy” image in Illustrator to make […]

3d Printed Gir Cookie Cutter

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