What’s exciting about a Lithium screwdriver? Basically not a lot, but if Banggood had simply wanted to send me the bits – I’d have had them… you can never have too many screwdriver bits. Anyway, the Worx WX240 4V USB Mini Screwdriver certainly ticks the right boxes – as usual…
Blitzwolf BW-SHC3 PTZ 1080P Outdoor Camera
To give this camera its full title, it is the Blitzwolf BW-SHC3 PTZ 1080P Outdoor IP Security Camera. And yes, that’s a link to Banggood – full technical spec therein 🙂 If you are interested, you may have just read my short review of the Imou outdoor camera, which while…
Imou Bullet 2C Camera Motion Detection Camera
I received this camera directly from Imou some weeks ago and initially dismissed it. I could find no information on how to get it to work outside of its own APP, nor how to get it to work on hardwired network – and the WiFi connection was not reliable. But…
SQLITE3 Raspberry Pi Problems and Solutions?
If like me, upgrading Node-Red (in my case on Raspberry Pi) is often problematic – then it may well be worthwhile reading this update – at last solving a long-lasting issue including SQLITE and other installs which rely on NodeJS. If you regularly upgrade a Node-Red installation which makes use…
Rock T20 Universal Multi-function Dual USB Socket
The Rock T20 is a travel socket with a difference (info in the link but as Steve below in the comments says, this is now discontinued on the Banggood site even days after I received mine – a shame as it is a nice adaptor and they don’t seem to…
ESCAM QF288 1080p WiFi IP Camera
Reader Paul Richarson wrote a comment in an earlier camera blog of mine which triggered me to get hold of an ESCAM QF288 1080P WiFi IP Camera from Banggood as he suspected the camera is 3* optical zoom, not 8* optical zoom…. and he’s right – the ads claim 8x…
Huawei Band 6 v Xiaomi Mi Band 6
Too early to do a review – it seems that AliExpress will have the new Huawei Band 6 (GLOBAL) this week to I’m guessing that means we outside of China won’t be able to actually get one for maybe 3 weeks – and I’ve seen nothing yet about the Xiaomi…
Seeed WIO Terminal and Battery Pack
Some time ago I received a Wio terminal from Seeed and I remember thinking “great, finally a decent colour display system, cased, with decent IO capability – but why didn’t they put a battery in it?”. Well, now they have – or rather they have brought out a plug-in battery…
The CRICKET from ThingsOnEdge.COM
Of course we’ve all seen this form factor before – ESP8266 on a board with power and antenna, FLASH etc.. The ESP-12 is only one of many and now we have a new option – with a difference… also – this is an update of my late-2020 original blog. And…
Mobile Hotspot thoughts and discussion
Until recently, doing away with my broadband supplier was an impossibility – and it may well still be impractical but I’m investigating possibilities – feedback is most welcome. So, to start the ball rolling, here in rural Southern Spain where we have NO landlines on the outskirts of our village…
88VF Max Lithium One-Hand Chainsaw
The exact unit I’m going to refer to is currently sold out but this Banggood link shows several similar chainsaws and includes an identical model. This is a cute gadget. Now I should point out that unlike larger models, this 88VF Electric Saw Cordless One-Hand Chain Saw (see link higher…
Flsun® Q5 3D Printer Kit – Easy-Peasy
The FLSun Q5 printer kit from Banggood sounds on the surface like an all-day project (but it isn’t). If you have already assembled an SLA 3D printer, depending on your skill levels, you may know that this can be a treacherous task, which is one reason my first Tevo Tarantula…
Tasmota upgrade inconsistencies ?
I wonder if any Tasmota fans out there have any thoughts on something I’ve pondered many times but never put into print until now? So… I just updated a smartbulb from Tasmota dev version v9.3.0.1 to v9.3.1.2 using the web OTA. My screen showed the usual OTA lag after the…
ET8134 4.7-inch Large LCD Screen Smart True RMS Digital Multimeter
Last week, I got an ET8134 4.7-inch Large LCD Screen Smart True RMS Digital Multimeter in the post. I’ve not had a new meter in a while so I was quite interested to open this up – having seen the ads. For reasons which will be obvious when you see…
LIVEN G-5 Smart Oil-free Hot Air Fryer
The LIVEN G-5 Smart Oil-free Air Fryer which arrived from Banggood is interesting for several reasons – some of them nothing to do with cooking. Why use an air-fryer at all? Well, convenience, health, safety? Will that do for starters? Any why this one? This nice-looking hot air fryer came…
Anycubic Photon Mono 3D Printer Revisited
The Anycubic® Photon Mono 2K High Speed Resin 3D Printer certainly has possibilities – but unlike my Crealty LD-002R who’s operation was immediately obvious and which works very well, the starting point with the Anycubic back in November 2020 suggested I had a faulty unit – as I develop this…
Eleksmaker A3 Pro 3500mW Laser Engraver
The A3 Pro is looking like it’s going to be a MARVELOUS engraver. Some of you may recall back in 2018 I wrote about the original Eleksmaker Pro engraver – it came with a 400mW laser module which was rapidly replaced with a 2300mW laser and very nice too. I…
And Now – The Poco M3
Regular readers know I’m a Pocophone fanatic – best mid-range phones around – I started with the Pocophone F1 and only moved it on when the Pocophone X3 came out – the latter is in daily use – I LOVE it. Now, no-one is suggesting that the newer M3 will…
The Itead Journey Continues
I’ve had the latest Zigbee dongle from Itead for a while but it was embargoed until release – I note that CNX was quick off the mark to announce this – anyway here it is.. version 3.0 of their incredibly cheap Zigbee dongle featuring Silicon Labs EFR32MG21 MCU (like we…
PC Upgrades – Studio Lighting – and about time
I’ve had my DELL desktop PC for some years now – originally kitted out with a pair of 1TB hard disks and 8GB RAM as well as an Intel I7 processor. The unit came complete with 6 USB2 sockets and only two USB3 sockets, neither of which can supply significant…