Hardware

OpenAuto Pro: Uctronics 7″ HDMI/USB touchscreen

This entry is part 19 of 19 in the series Subaru Legacy

Finally got round to completing my OpenAuto Pro 15 + RPi4 project. I did install it a while ago, briefly, but took it out after […]

OpenAuto Pro & CarPiHat.

This entry is part 18 of 19 in the series Subaru Legacy

In this previous post I went through my initial setup of OpenAuto Pro (OAP). There are still a few bits-and-bobs to sort out. I came […]

OpenAuto Pro (for a 2006 JDM Subaru Legacy)

This entry is part 17 of 19 in the series Subaru Legacy

I have swapped out my previous home-brew Android-based (Emteria on a RPi3) in-car screen to a RPi4B using OpenAuto Pro. OpenAuto Pro (“OAP”), by BlueWave […]

Quick and dirty removing components from trash PCBs

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series TIL

We are in COVID lockdown in New Zealand so needs must, and I am reduced to ‘recovering’ some components off the trash PCBs I have […]

LoRa 101: Getting JayCar/ Duinotech components XC4394 & XC4392 working

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series LoRa

I have had a project in mind for a while for a remote sensor (in the sea!) but did not like the idea of having […]

Active Ball Joint. Too hard box, for now

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Ball joint

I went all gung-ho (from Chinese 工合 …who knew!) into modelling the cross spherical gear (CSG) and monopole gears (MPG) on the ABENICS system. I […]

Euler angles

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Ball joint

I’d never come across Euler angles (or noticed them if I had), but they are an(other) way of describing the rotation of a rigid object […]

Active Ball Mechanism Joint – Monopole gear

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Ball joint

In this previous post I modelled the cross spherical gear part of a cool joint I found online – you can see a video of […]

Active ball mechanism joint

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Ball joint

Came across the video below. Thought it was cool. Cooler to make one though right?! I found the original paper here, which has some great […]

OctoPi plugin to control relays

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series RepRap

I started developing a plugin for Octoprint (more specifically Octoprint-on-RPi aka Octopi). It allows you to control relays on a Pi-Plates RELAYplate hat. See here […]

Octopi: If it ain’t broke…

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series RepRap

In my last Reprap-Revival related post I went on about upgrading to RPi4 & wifi (from RPi3B & LAN) for Octopi. Subsequently, I have found […]

ESPmDNS: An ESP32 secret (to me anyway)

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series ESP32

ESPmDNS enables (Zeroconf/ Bonjour/) Multicast DNS on your ESP32 (and maybe ESP8266? don’t know) microcontroller. Previously I’d been assigning a static address to ESP32 devices […]

Hello Reprap. My old friend.

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series RepRap

I watched the video below on DriveTribe and was inspired. The presenter found his first car and has taken it upon himself to revive it […]

ESP32 meet Science Journal. Science Journal, meet ESP32

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series ESP32

I’ve put together PlatformIO library for connecting ESP32 boards to the Arduino* Science Journal App via BLE (Android / iOS). In my case, the boards […]

I bought 10 ESP32 dev boards off AliExpress.

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series ESP32

And now I need to work out what to do with them. Aliexpress link here. Why? I have been playing around with a board I […]

RobotDyn UNO+WiFi: SoftwareSerial

The RobotDyn board has some DIP switches on, which allow you to UART to either the ESP8266 or ATmega328p, so you can upload code to […]

RobotDyn UNO + ESP8266: AT Mode

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series ESP8266

This post should probably have a sub-title: The penny drops After a short-lived feeling of victory in this previous post, I set upon trying to […]

RobotDyn UNO + ESP8266

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series ESP8266

… oh, and USB-TTL CH340G which does the USB communicating with ESP8266. I think you otherwise need to wire something up using one of these […]

Adobe Premiere Pro: Final Cut

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Adobe Premiere Pro: First Cut

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Autonomous Mapping with Quadcopter: HiveMapper

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Quadcopter

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Amazing Spaces Special: An Aircraft Carrier

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The pressure transducer I bought

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Casting Day Fuzzy Feeling

This entry is part 14 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Casting Day Brown Gas

This entry is part 13 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Dog’s Head: Casting Day

This entry is part 12 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Dog’s Head: Plaster Mould

This entry is part 11 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Dog’s Head: Wax Cast. Take 2

This entry is part 10 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Aluminium Furnace: Some Pics

This entry is part 9 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Graveyard Spiral REDUX

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Quadcopter

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Quadcopter Crash Landing

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Quadcopter

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Dog’s Head: Furnace Ceramic Shield

This entry is part 8 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Dog’s Head: Aluminium Furnace Electronics

This entry is part 6 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Dog’s Head: Aluminium Furnace

This entry is part 7 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Google+ Dried Banana Making Machine

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Dog’s Head: Metal Casting – Lost Wax

This entry is part 4 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Dog’s Head: Metal Casting Mould by Dissolving ABS Print

This entry is part 3 of 15 in the series Dog's Head

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Reversing Camera: The New One (Part 2)

This entry is part 16 of 19 in the series Subaru Legacy

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DIY In-Car Screen: Extending Raspberry Pi Wifi Antenna.

This entry is part 15 of 19 in the series Subaru Legacy

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Reprap: Idea to Thing

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series RepRap

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Quadcopter vs Drone. A case for the Tessacopter.

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Quadcopter

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Drone: Flight Controller (Revolt v3)

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Quadcopter

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Drone: Intro

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Quadcopter

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