The Wemos D1 Mini is an ESP8266 based prototyping board with WiFi connectivity and countless applications. It becomes even more useful in battery-powered applications, where with the proper setup, it can run low-powered for months at a time — or only hours if done incorrectly.
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Build a Lego Power Functions compatible controller integrated with ESPHome and Home Assistant. I always wanted a Lego Holiday Train and with the house full of friends and family this year the timing was just right.
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Lately, I’ve been having a ton of fun with Home Assistant and home automation.
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My toddler niece is too young to read but always in for a good story. So I created for her a portable audio player of children stories.
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Computer mice come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, but are typically designed to fit in the palm of your hand.
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This blog posts was also published on the YosysHQ blog. If you’re reading this you probably already know that Yosys is an open source logic synthesis tool.
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It’s something of an article of faith, that to run Linux your computer must include a hardware memory management unit, or MMU. To an extent it’s true, in that for a Linux-based system to shine it must have that hardware, but in fact there has been support for MMU-less Linux for many years now.
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The inspiration for this week’s project came from a few weeks ago. I was in awe of Quentin’s flexible PCB (linked here), particularly because I found it so fun that something as rigid as a PCB could be flexible.
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A problem faced increasingly by retrocomputer enthusiasts everywhere is the supply of chips.
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The trick to producing great 3D printing time-lapse animations is to ensure that the extruder has moved out of the frame each time a photo is taken — which usually requires OctoPrint to be controlling both the camera and printer.
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