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
Raspberry Pi
Read Data from a Wood Boiler and Save it in MySQL
This project is part of a larger project to collect and visualize data from a heating system in my house. The heating system consists of several heating sources (wood, heat Read more
Design
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 Read more
Raspberry Pi
How-To: Install Docker on Raspberry Pi
In this post, I shortly describe how to install Docker on Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspian Buster. There are many tutorials available describing the process, but I faced always an Read more
Arduino
How-To: ESP8266 Programming with Arduino IDE
This post summarizes the steps to program an ESP8266 with its own program written with Arduino IDE. I used the ESP8266 for example in the project MANU – 3D printed Read more
Robotic
MOBROB: Behaviour-Based Control
In this article, I present the central concept of the robot control of my mobile robot. There are many different variants to structure the software for a robot. I will Read more
Robotic
MOBROB: ROS Software Architecture
After I presented the hardware architecture in an earlier article, I want to dedicate this article to the software architecture of my mobile robot MOBROB. The software architecture is based Read more
Arduino
LED Light Cubes with ATtiny and NeoPixel
This time I will show how I built the LED light cubes shown in the picture above. I call them TinyLightCube, as they using an ATtiny85 as a microcontroller. The Read more
