Matthew Haughey
A few weeks ago, I read my friend Michael Pusateri's post on this tiny touchscreen you can buy at Aliexpress, and how he programmed it to become buttons for his Home Assistant setup, letting anyone who walks into his kitchen control the lights with a simple tap. I was immediately intrigued and...
acidbourbon
Motivation Guitar effect pedalboards … If this post is for you, I guess I don’t have to explain this concept in great detail here. Most of us have a USB power bank lying around somewhere that can charge your phone or wireless headphones, should you end up somewhere without access to a wall...
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
Long-time vim or neovim users are probably already aware that visually selecting a block of text then pressing CTRL + A in vim will result in any numbers in the selected block of text being incremented by 1. This works even if the block contains non-numeric text: each group of digits gets treated...
acidbourbon
Motivation Sometimes you just barely get away with the number of available microcontroller GPIO pins to implement the desired functionality — And then you discover that you have no more pins left to read out any buttons that a user could push to actually operate the device. What I present...
Adrian
We’ve discovered that no matter how realistic the kids toy is, our 2 year old is inevitably going to want the “real” thing: electric screwdrivers, speakers, instruments – the real deal is clearly where the action is. So instead of buying the kids version of a product, I’ve started just buying...
Aden Forshaw
The wifi coffee machine by smarter coffee is not a secure device. It can’t be allowed to connect to your main router, but it needs to be controlled by a group remotely …plus it’s fun to play around with right? Solution: Connect it to a satellite router with only a RaspberryPi for company. This...