The ESP8266 relay project started off as an attempt to control a relay with the ESP8266 from a wireless interface, such as a web browser. The idea can easily be achieved with a few different modules which are available from eBay relatively inexpensively. I however usually don’t like the idea of assembling several modules to
After my first fan controller was competed and working, I was pretty happy with it. But as I learned more, experimented more, and became familiar with more hardware, I realized much more could be done with the controller. With the previous controller, I used the Attiny85, which was perfect for the job it was given,
A few years ago, I was spending a considerable amount of time away from my apartment. Some of this time arose during the winter months, and I found myself wanting to reduce the heating costs of the apartment, and therefor the temperature while I was away. Because the unit is adjacent to a few others,
One of the first Arduino projects that I started off playing around with was a clock. The project went through various iterations, and served as a learning experience for me. The first few sets of code I ran did not use a RTC (real time clock). At first I didn’t notice, or was not too
I have a computer desk that I like quite well. It it was designed to be used with a desktop computer, and has all the attributes that are common with computer desks, such as keyboard trays and so on. One thing that may be a bit less common however, is that there is a cabinet
In early 2017, I developed some interest in seven segment displays, and in how to drive them. Because of the large wealth of information surrounding the Arduino IDE on the internet, finding a program that could drive such a display proved to be a relatively easy task. Before long, on my breadboard I had a
Being a part of the irc.p2pchat.net community for quite a number of years, and during that time collecting data from various rooms, I thought it would be fun to try and compile that data in to a interesting format. Looking into the software I could use for such an activity, I stumbled upon Pisg, (Perl
Years ago by a forgotten party, I was introduced to a piece of software for monitoring Linux systems; it’s name is Munin. What Munin does is to analyse all sorts of system logs for important attributes, and graph them for you. If you’re running a Linux distribution there’s a good chance there will be a
Providing software support in a IRC chatroom can prove daunting at times. The users seeking assistance will have varying levels of familiarity with the software in question, and oftentimes lack a basic understanding of how to use the software at all. Online documentation is quite helpful, pointing them in the way of this documentation can
What is Aliosensu? Aliosensu is the branding I decided on for my electronics projects. I have been working on a number of different electronics projects over the past several months, and a number of them have made it to the stage where I designed and submitted for production a lot of PCBs. Because there would