Generally speaking, I like to get a good 8 hours sleep. Occasionally, however, something really earth-shatteringly important preys on my mind and won’t let me get past the first 5 hours – this was one of those nights. I’ve been pondering my ideal lamp.
Month: August 2017
Sonoff T1
The Sonoff T1 is described as a Luxury Glass Panel Touch Wall Switch” – and indeed looking at mine – it looks very nice indeed. The wall switch comes in three varieties with 1 touch area (and one output) up to 3 touch areas (and 3 outputs). There’s a full…
Colour OLEDS
Just in case you were wondering about those pretty two-colour OLEDS we see on Ebay etc.. It would seem they are not QUITE compatible with the normal single colour ones – if you look at the photo on the right, it simply looks like they’ve split board to have yellow…
ODroid C2
You’ll see in an earlier post a little picture of the Odroid C2 and following on from a previous last blog, I’ve had tremendous fun playing with the Virtual Debian – i.e. DietPi – and I just happened to be looking at the Dietpi site (which is very nice incidentally)…
Raspbian Stretch and GPIO Utility Fix
If any of you have installed the new “Stretch” version of Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi, you may have noticed a slight issue with the wiringPi GPIO utility.
Roseapple Pi and Wiring Nirvana
Yes, you’ve heard it all now, we have Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, Nano Pi and… Roseapple Pi. A long time ago when I first wrote about this board, there was a price tag of $35 (I believe it was called the Lemon Pi – same board, different marketing – hence…
Ikea Solar Installation
Just a brief comment about solar panels in the UK and in particular, Ikea. Comments invited. Recently announced, Ikea in partnership with a company called Solarcentury are to sell solar panel kit. I feel I should say my piece and then let others come back to me….
Banana Pi Zero
Does this look familiar to you? I’ve not had a chance to test one of these but I thought it worth bringing the Banana Pi Zero to your attention and can make some preliminary comments..
The Sonoff B1
The Sonoff B1 is a “white and color” smart-bulb! Not a lot new here you might say – and certainly, many such bulbs exist. Shortly after I received this lamp back in 2017, I happened to be in Toledo in Spain at a major shopping centre at the Leroy Merlin…
Nano I2c Peripheral
My “nano peripheral” started life as a simple attempt to expand the ESP8266 by making use of the IO on a really cheap Chinese board, an Arduino Nano equivalent Chinese £1.20 rip-off (After all, any Arduino is basically little more than an Atmel chip with reset and power circuitry and…
A new GPIO in Town
Since I started reviewing different boards (i.e. those other than the Raspberry Pi), one thing that has always stood out a mile has been lack of GPIO support. Well, that’s now history – at least for Node-Red users. I cannot being to express how sick and tired I am of…
Khadas Vim
A little something arrived via Correos post for me recently… a very pretty little package containing a Khadas Vim. What is that, you may well ask. Well, until recently I’d not heard of them either. I can’t remember if one of you good readers brought them to my attention or…
The Real Raspberry Pi
I’ve been using the likes of FriendlyArm boards and similar for so long now, struggling at first with GPIO and I2c and as regular readers will know, finally pretty much mastering it due to hard research and more importantly, the works of people you’ll find links to in other articles…
Arduino Cores
Just a quick one…. for some time until I discovered the ESP8266 and the Espressif SDK which I use today, I was an Arduino fan and one of the more annoying aspects was the lack of support for all but the mainstream units – Atmega328, 2560 etc. One particularly nice…
The TOMO Power Supply
Well, I started to make a video of this thinking it was going to be a great new uninterruptable supply. I’d listened to others, I’d read the spec (or so I thought) and this was to be the new saviour of battery supplies. The TOMO unit comes in different sizes,…