Weather With Matrix Portal Display
Recently I acquired the Adafruit Matrix Portal kit and was able to create a weather display for my kitchen. The weather is updated every 10 minutes with only the bottom portion scrolling.
Recently I acquired the Adafruit Matrix Portal kit and was able to create a weather display for my kitchen. The weather is updated every 10 minutes with only the bottom portion scrolling.
Never having made a reverse geocache box I wanted to make one for my wife’s birthday this year. Using directions from Adafruit it was fairly easy. It is amazing how the small GPS unit works!
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Recently got my hands on a MagTag kit from Adafruit. This is an ESP32-S2 board with built in wi-fi combined with an e-Ink display. The… Read More »MagTag Weather
Raspberry Pi Pico The Raspberry Pi Pico is quite interesting. For very cheap you can have a basic but powerful in and out microcontroller. It… Read More »Raspberry Pi Pico
How to create an ESP8266 based laundry reminder. Needing a way to remind myself to get my laundry out of the washing machine, I created Laundromat.
While this project did not include any soldering it is still fun and enjoyable. I have made a Naturewatch camera using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a camera. The software is from Naturewatch.
Whenever you are soldering you should use some kind of ventilation, such as a smoke absorber. It could be a ceiling fan, an open window… Read More »Smoke Absorbers And Soldering Ventilation
We have revised our soldering kit available on Tindie. The kit teaches you to solder in about 20 minutes to half an our. Solder the… Read More »Soldering Kit
Arduino has launched a new certification program called Arduino Fundamentals. Arduino makes programmable microcontrollers in a variety of styles. Shown here is the classic Uno.
Soldering with 2 hands can sometimes be tricky, especially when freehand soldering. Soldering can also get repetitive. The Automatic Soldering Iron from Simple Helpful Tech… Read More »Soldering Iron For One Hand