Design
DIY Star-Shaped Wooden Lamp
Light up your space with this handmade star-shaped wooden lamp! It’s made with a jigsaw and a simple lamp socket from the hardware store. It’s fun and easy to create...
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DIY Wooden Lamp
Design your own lamp? Not easier than that. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how I build my own DIY lamp from wood. For the DIY lampshade shown, we only...
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Arduino
RingClock with NeoPixel LEDs and ESP8266
Hey folks! If you got a kick out of my Word Clock 2.0 build, you’re going to enjoy what’s up next. I’ve been tinkering away and am stoked to introduce Read more…
Robotic
3D Printed Parallel Gripper
I am currently in the process of designing and building a five-axis robot from scratch. I, therefore, also need a gripper to be able to manipulate objects. The drive for Read more…
Raspberry Pi
DEBUGGING of PICO in VS CODE on Windows
In this post, I would like to summarize the steps to set up debugging of Raspberry Pi Pico with Picoprobe in VS Code on Windows. Most of this post is Read more…
Raspberry Pi
MQTT with TLS: Secure Communication from Node-RED to Server
This post is a complete guide on how to set up secure communication from a local Node-RED server to a server on the public internet using TLS-encrypted MQTT messages. In Read more…
Raspberry Pi
Drink Water Reminder with Raspberry Pi Pico
I built a small project to test the Raspberry Pi Pico with the Pico LCD 1.3 module. This turns out to be a very nice gift for any person who Read more…
Raspberry Pi
3D-Printed Robotic Hand – Raspberry Pi Pico
I developed a 3D-printed robotic hand during my studies at the Technical University of Munich. I used a 3D printer to build the mechanical parts and a Raspberry Pi Pico Read more…
Arduino
7-Segment Display with APA102 LEDs and ESP8266
Here is one more small project I build on one weekend. the starting point was a spare “Raspberry Pi Blink!” mini LED strip originally planned for a Raspberry Pi. I Read more…
Arduino
SMART LED LAMP: Getting Started with ESP8266
In this article, I present my basic hardware and software parts for a smart LED lamp project, which is to be controlled via WiFi. Two examples of such a project Read more…
Arduino
DIY Word Clock 2.0 with WiFi and NeoPixel
Two years ago I already built a word clock with NeoPixel LEDs. You can find the article about it here. At that time I built the word clock only with Read more…