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I mostly use EasyEDA for PCB design: it is easy to use and ordering assembled PCBs from JLCPCB couldn’t be easier (and cheaper) with any other EDA tool. But exporting your PCB design from EasyEDA as a 3D object is really faulty. Often we want …
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If you are still looking for justifications to buy a 3D printer then this blog post is for you. Banggood recently sent me the Ender 3 V2 for review and wow, this is really a great printer! I had two other printers before but this …
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Logic Analyzers can be quite useful to test and analyze hardware. In this short video I explain how to use the cheap LHT00SU1 logic analyzer together with PulseView on Mac OS X to test a new ESP32 development board.
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Recently more and more ESP32 hardware is appearing with the WCH CH9102 Serial-To-USB chip. I assume lower costs and higher availability are the reason for this. Lower costs compared to FTDI chips, to the Silicon Labs CP2102 or CP2104. But when I recently started working …
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How do you add new virtual devices/commands in Node-Red so that Alexa can control them? There are great Node-Red extensions but things get more complicated if Node-Red is running in a docker container. In this blog post I share my take-aways from setting this up.
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If you are lacking good documentation it can be very hard to get started with a new device. I just couldn’t find a comprehensive example project for how to connect TTGO-LoRA32 V1.0 with the V3 version of the Things Network. So I hope this post …
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The ESP32 platform offers a wide range of functionality almost out of the box. For instance you can turn a ESP32 with little effort into a Bluetooth Audio speaker. In this article I describing how I tapped into the digital data stream coming from a …
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Do you know this problem: you want your dumb home appliances to let you know once they change a state. You want to know once the dish washer finishes the cleaning cycle or when your electric oven has reached the target temperature to put the …
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Fritzing is a wonderful tool to document your electronic projects, if – and only if – the parts you use are available in the parts library. If you are designing parts yourself you can help the community by creating Fritzing parts for your designs.
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The ESP32 is a remarkable chip. It has many peripherals, lots of processing power. With built-in WiFi und BLE support it offers two widely adopted communication protocols. And with the right circuitry and programming it can ran from batteries for a very long time. In …
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For a long time I had a 8×8 RGB WS2812 led module in my gadget box. The WS2812 led is a wonderful component for makers. It is easy to program and comes in many forms for a really low price. With just 3 lines (5V, …
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I love machines that help me to build my projects. I also love to hack devices to do more than they were built for. So you can imagine what a fun project it was for me to hack my desktop 3018 CNC mill into a …
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Recently I was asked: “What do you need a development board for?” For me the answer is very clear. I love short development cycles. It’s much faster to verify an idea on a bread board before you sit down and design a PCB. Designing a …