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Month: February 2020

Owon ODP3033 Bench Triple Power Supply

February 29, 2020March 4, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral2 Comments on Owon ODP3033 Bench Triple Power Supply

Updated Feb 29, 2020: And why would anyone write about a power supply? Not the most interesting subject, but like many boring things such as backups, essential. I created a short video several weeks ago about the Owon P4603 – a single channel job of particular interest as it has…

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AliExpress Sinilink WIFI USB Controller

February 25, 2020May 6, 2020 Peter ScargillSimilink, Single-Chip Microprocessing116 Comments on AliExpress Sinilink WIFI USB Controller
Sinilink

Today’s project for the day is the ESP8285-based “Sinilink WIFI-USB Mobile Phone Remote Controller” (or Sonoff for USB” as others have called it) – which handles up to 5 amps and can use a USB connection of from 3.5 to 20v (I’ve only tested 5v). Later I will describe how…

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Bakeey E70 Waterproof ECG, Blood Oxygen and BP Smartwatch

February 18, 2020March 21, 2020 Peter ScargillBakeey, General17 Comments on Bakeey E70 Waterproof ECG, Blood Oxygen and BP Smartwatch
Bakeey E70

I’ve updated this blog entry about the Bakeey E70 IP68 Waterproof Wristband ECG+PPG Heart Rate Blood Oxygen Monitor Smart Watch (which looks lovely) as I think it deserves a second glance because it has now been on my wrist for 7 solid days and the battery is still at 68%.…

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Raspberry Pi 4 and SSD – Miracles at Last?

February 16, 2020November 25, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral26 Comments on Raspberry Pi 4 and SSD – Miracles at Last?

I’ve just been watching a video by Andreas Speiss – and I agree with him, USB boot on the Raspberry Pi has taken FAR too long and we are NOT a tiny minority in favour of USB boot, contrary to comments in the Pi forums. The PI3 had USB2 boot…

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Blitzwolf BW-HL2 Smart Watch

February 6, 2020February 7, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral8 Comments on Blitzwolf BW-HL2 Smart Watch
BW-HL2

If like me, you are aware of Blitwolf (actually the name often takes me back to “Wolfensten”) you will probably think of battery packs or even WIFI-controlled power sockets or adaptors…. but here we have a Blitzwolf BW-HL2 WATCH. A classy looking job with “leather” look strap, default classical-looking analog…

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Deerma VC20 Ultra Light Cordless Vacuum Cleaner

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral6 Comments on Deerma VC20 Ultra Light Cordless Vacuum Cleaner
Vacuum

Ok, I know this isn’t strictly high tech – but I promised Maureen I’d get her a new vacuum from China and here it is – the Deerma VC20 Ultra Light Cordless Vacuum Cleaner This neat cordless vacuum just arrived, having been (almost) delivered at the start of January JUST…

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Smoke Alarms, Door and Water Leakage Sensors for RF-Bridge

February 2, 2020April 18, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral10 Comments on Smoke Alarms, Door and Water Leakage Sensors for RF-Bridge

I recently wrote about the Sonoff RF-Bridge – a great device for transferring RF signals from various gadgets to WIFI – well, first things first, I put Tasmota on the RF-Bridge so now, using the free Tasmota Device Manager on it, I can receive information from devices and that gets…

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Xiaomi Redme Note 8 Pro Smartphone

February 2, 2020May 5, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral10 Comments on Xiaomi Redme Note 8 Pro Smartphone
Note 8 Pro

This updated blog entry is about the Redme Note 8 Pro Smartphone (Xiaomi – Global version). Ever since Banggood sent off a Bakeey cover for the Redmi Note 8 Pro phone when all I had at the time was the original Note 8 (there IS a difference – both great…

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