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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:
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!
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) […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
WordPress does have it’s famous 5 minute install, but to get it fully configured these days there’s a few additional steps you’ll want to take. Directions were drafted from Fedora 27, but they’re very similar for other linux distributions. I’m serving the site using php 7 and NGINX. The instructions […]