For those looking in for the first time, I’ll simply start at the end and show you my current collection (minus models I’ve given away) now that I’ve cracked using this excellent printer – and then we’ll head back to where it all started. But here at the end of…
Month: September 2020
Raspberry Pi 4 plus SSD Case
Right now this is a request for ideas from readers – hopefully someone will have answers and I can then write about them here. Having recently gotten to grips with and blogged about Rasberry Pi 4 and the speed benefits of using an SSD drive via a USB3 to SATA…
PiSugar 2 and PiSugar 2 Pro
I’m now the proud owner of both the PiSugar 2 and PiSugar 2 Pro These are un-interruptible power supplies for the Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi (3A, 3B, 3B+, 4B. Both of these boards come complete with magnetically attached Lithium battery – 1200maH capacity in the case of the…
Carku 64B versus D28A Portable Car Jump Starters
I have a couple of cars, one of which has a battery in doubtful state afet being flattened a few weeks ago. It works perfectly but knowing car batteries and their ability to recover from being flattened (or not) I at first figured I’d buy a battery charger – and…
Mikato S2 Smart PIR Toothbrush Sterilizer
It seems like an age ago that I wrote about the Soocas X3 Electric Toothbrushes.. and yet in fact it was just a couple of weeks ago – and now THIS – the Mikatu S2 Smart PIR Induction Electric Toothbrush Sterilizer Holder (to give it the full title). I was…
Laser Engraver Coming Up
I’m currently awaiting delivery of new laser engraver but in the meantime, down at San Jose (the original one in Spain) on our weekend off, I just picked up this wonderful USB desk light – I could not resist showing it to you guys – as it occurred to me…
The IOTCRICKET 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 one… The biggy here is that the IOT Cricket, I have it on good authority from Sylwester…
GL-iNET Brume-W Travel Router
I’m currently playing with the Brume-W (GL-MV1000W) “Edge Computing Gateway”. To test, I turned on the virgin Brume – and connected the WAN to my network via a handy network lead. That’s it – nothing else – not a single extra step. I then pointed my phone to a new…
Lilygo TTGO ESP32 T-Watch-2020
OK, that’s a mouthful… The Lilygo watch is particularly interesting to us technical folk as it runs on an ESP32 processor. I’ve been after one of these for ages for those tech moments – i.e. for the few times I get to go drinking with other technically minded folk who…
The value of 5Ghz WiFi Adaptors
So, I just started using my TP-Link router and my new Spitz router on 5Hz – mainly as it is a pain to wire up our place in Spain. Thinking my PC had no WiFi at all, I sent off to AliExpress for a cheap dual-band USB3 WiFi adaptor. Today…
Tasmota – TDM, Tasmotize and TasUI
This is a never-ending story about Theo Arends’s much-loved alternative firmware for IOT (http://ota.tasmota.com/tasmota/tasmota.bin) as Tasmota is now at development version 8.5.0.1 “Hannah” (update September 13, 2020) – I’ve upgraded my various ESP8266-based devices including Itead Sonoff BASIC, TH10, 4CH Pro, ProR2, Powr2, Shelly One, Blitzwolf and others). Warning, there…
Xiaomi Mi Band 5
Back in 2019 I wrote about the wonderful Xiaomi Mi Band 4 and it is no secret, despite owning and reviewing many smart watches and bands in detail, that the Xiaomi Mi 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watches remain my favourites – one or the other being in use every single…
False Review Epidemic
You HAVE to see this. Blackview company just sent me emails promoting their new products – they wanted me (and others) to follow their official store – so being me, I sent back an email to suggest that if they wanted to ship one to me, I’d have a play…
Eachine E520S GPS WIFI Quadcoptor
I started this blog entry to tell you a little about the nice-looking Eachine E520S GPS WIFI FPV With 1080P HD Camera Quadcopter which I received from Banggood Back in June (but read on) – I’ve added some VERY short videos further down – and I have an upgrade. My…
Bakeey T90 Bluetooth Earbuds Smart Watch
This is new – a smartband with built-in Bluetooth earbuds – WELL, THAT’s handy for travelling. This entry is about the Bakeey T90 Wireless Earbuds Smart Watch. I went out on a limb with this one – never seen anything quite like it but as the T90 was “different” –…
7 LED Solar Landscape Lamp
The original version of this lovely garden light came in June 2019 and was a a staple part of our garden edge lighting here in Spain for around a year, until some nasty piece of work stole it. I have yet to find out who it was who took the…
SOOCAS X3 Electric Sonic Toothbrush
A good start to the week, I think. Today our new “smart” Soocas Electric Sonic toothbrushes arrived in the mail and very nicely packed they were. This interesting sonic toothbrush (with APP) looks well made – and after the boring colours of my regular old non-sonic Braun electric, provides a…
Honorable Mention Weekend
Lots of things going on this weekend, nothing completed sufficiently to blog about in isolation but I felt the need to keep subscribers up to date and thank some people in the process. I’ve been trying to brighten up the blog a little – and CSS was never my strongest…
KSGER T12 Soldering Station
A quick writeup about the V2.1S T12 Digital Temperature Controller Soldering Station courtesy of Banggood – the unit comes minus mains power cable and with a single all-in-one tip – but looks very sturdy. So above I’ve shown what you get with the package, below I’ll show the unit assembled…
GL-iNet Spitz 4G LTE Smart Router
I’m impressed already – as a long-term occasional user of the GL-iNet Mango travel router, I thought I’d give their upmarket products a look – there is a lot more to this router than it first seems. The Spitz is LOVELY. Check pricing in your area. Tiny and open-source, the…