How to Make the "Tip the Balance" Bathroom Scale
If you've decided to make the Tip the Balance Bathroom Scale, you won't find instructions here! (If you insist on making it, you can find the »
Garage Hobbyist Invents Device to let you Lose Weight in an Instant
Yes, you read the title right. No more arduous diets or cutting out snacks. No more exhausting exercises, or battling with feeble willpower. This amazing new »
The Essential Breadboard Tool that Nobody Has
How many hours in your life have you spent troubleshooting a project? Knowing your I2C from your SPI You've spent ages connecting a bolognese of wires »
Hack together a dirt-cheap LoRa transmitter/receiver dev board
LoRa is relatively new in IoT. (Actually, not that new, but it's taking time to percolate into the ecosphere.) For those that don't know, LoRa stands »
Make an Astonishingly Minimalistic Multicolor LED Display for Pennies
A few months before Christmas, social media channels start filling with instructions about LEDs for home decoration. Popular software is WLED, a program that describes itself »
Make a Raspberry Pi Pico Oscilloscope with 3d Printed Case
Many readers of this blog will know that it's possible to make an oscilloscope/logic analyzer from the Raspberry Pi Pico. Called Scoppy, full details are »
Make a Weather Station with an ESP32 and a WeAct 2.13 inch EPaper Screen
This post is more of a Public Service Announcement that a real "how to" explanation. A couple of weeks ago I acquired a WeAct 2.13 »
Getting an IKEA Motion Sensor to work in Node Red
I usually start my posts by warning readers that I'm an amateur with no background in coding or electronics. I write these blogs because while I'm »
The Idiot's guide to making Volos Project's Beautiful Smart Watch
As I've mentioned so many times in my blog posts, I've never studied electronics or engineering. Consequently, I come at my projects entirely as an amateur »
Make a Remote Temp Sensor with Permanent Display inside your House
Most of us use a phone app to see the temperature outside - which is fine if you don't mind receiving a reading from a sensor »