What? So over our BBQ we have some LED strip, the controller and the power supply I was using for this had both gone pop. Maybe something to do with the outdoors. The power supply actually hides in the shed and the controller is with the lights on the underside of the roof of a …
Category Archives: Hardware
More geek time
I used another one of my ESP32 devices this time as an output. Took me a while to get it working though as I was putting the text of the screen. Refresh rates Excuse the photo not looking wonderful, but the refresh rate of the display isn’t working well with the iPhone camera. However I’m …
I’ve been geeking again
I read about ESP32 devices and home assistant and couldn’t quite believe how many options there are to use them with external devices to get both inputs and outputs home automation wise. I’ve been wanting my own air pressure monitoring ever since the news reports that you could see an effect on air pressure when …
The oven has gone pop
I don’t believe it I hope my guess diagnosis is right, but if you turn the main oven on it neither gets hot or increases the household electricity consumption. I’ve guessed at the element. It could be worse It at least had the decency to not wait till Christmas Day to do this or do …
Network connected USB
Why So my car records the last 60 minutes from multiple cameras to a USB stick if you plug one in. I want to do something more long term like take a snapshot every 5 mins when driving. Sowhen COVID eventually goes away I can get a time lapse for each road trip I do. …
Geeky Sunday
So today I’ve written a plug-in for x-plane 11 and it lets me control my hue lights… This took far too long, but I’ve had to refresh my (human) memory on how to write code in C. I’ve learnt how to compile a dll to use libcurl as the hueapi is based round http requests …
I love my radiator valve
Yes you read that right. I really love my radiator valve.
What I really, really want
Is a commercial grade device that connects to Ethernet and let’s me power cycle a single device remotely. What’s really annoying is I could knock something like this up for home and be happy it was safe enough, but when it comes to work we really want to be buying in professional grade products. Now …