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Month: September 2020

PiSugar 2 and PiSugar 2 Pro

September 22, 2020October 5, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral1 Comment on 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…

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Carku 64B versus D28A Portable Car Jump Starters

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral1 Comment on 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…

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Mikato S2 Smart PIR Toothbrush Sterilizer

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral
UV 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 (to give it the full title). I was and am impressed with the ultrasonic toothbrushes but even…

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Laser Engraver Coming Up

September 19, 2020October 11, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral1 Comment on Laser Engraver Coming Up

I’m currently awaiting delivery of my 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…

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GL-iNET Brume-W Travel Router

September 15, 2020March 23, 2022 Peter ScargillGeneral, router, routers2 Comments on GL-iNET Brume-W Travel Router
Brume-W

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…

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Lilygo TTGO ESP32 T-Watch-2020

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral5 Comments on Lilygo TTGO ESP32 T-Watch-2020
TTGO WATCH

OK, that’s a mouthful… The 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 don’t want…

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The value of 5Ghz WiFi Adaptors

September 14, 2020September 20, 2020 Peter ScargillWIFI4 Comments on 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…

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False Review Epidemic

September 10, 2020September 18, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral6 Comments on 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…

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Eachine E520S GPS WIFI Quadcoptor

September 9, 2020September 28, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral4 Comments on Eachine E520S GPS WIFI Quadcoptor
Eachine

I started this blog entry to tell you a little about the nice-looking 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 original Eachine drone was a basic model with 1080P camera…

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7 LED Solar Landscape Lamp

September 8, 2020October 6, 2020 Peter ScargillSolar Flood full colour, Solar Lamp3 Comments on 7 LED Solar Landscape Lamp
7 colour plus white solar light

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…

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SOOCAS X3 Electric Sonic Toothbrush

September 7, 2020February 2, 2021 Peter ScargillGeneral1 Comment on SOOCAS X3 Electric Sonic Toothbrush
SOOCAS X3 Toothbrush

A good start to the week, I think. Today our new “smart” 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 refreshing change. The toothbrush…

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Honorable Mention Weekend

September 6, 2020September 7, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral

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…

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KSGER T12 Soldering Station

September 4, 2020September 13, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral1 Comment on KSGER T12 Soldering Station
Soldering station

A quick writeup about the 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 (takes seconds) and running – I put…

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GL-iNet Spitz 4G LTE Smart Router

September 2, 2020December 20, 2021 Peter ScargillGeneral3 Comments on GL-iNet Spitz 4G LTE Smart Router
Spitz

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 (GL-X750) is LOVELY. Check pricing in your area. Tiny and open-source,…

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Blitzwolf BW-UP2 USB 3.2 Flash Drive

September 1, 2020September 7, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral1 Comment on Blitzwolf BW-UP2 USB 3.2 Flash Drive
Blitzwolf BW-UP2

This morning in the post, arrived a . As a first simple write test, I copied one of my videos from my PC D: drive to the BW-UP2 – ok, not very scientific – but the copy time took exactly 8 seconds for a file of 925.2MBytes. And then, something…

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Xiaomi ZAJIA Auto-sense IR Induction Water Saver

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Peter ScargillGeneral18 Comments on Xiaomi ZAJIA Auto-sense IR Induction Water Saver
Xiaomi

I LOVE getting new toys. The original Zajia was sent to me in January 2020 by Banggood and it turned up in the UK in February. The battery-powered, USB-charged Zajia clips straight into the tap in the kitchen or bathroom to provide proximity-controlled water. If you are on a water…

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