Closing this one off – there are solutions in here and thanks to all. I thought I’d kluged this function together correctly but apparently not. I’m looking to be able to enter the 4th Monday of the month (ie today) as an example – and get true – getting false…
Category: General
Arduino STM32
Having decided I needed a more powerful generic peripheral board than the Arduino, I sent off for some STM32 boards to China – they got lost in the post. Meantime my friend Aidan sent me a nice little black board marked “JM ELECTRONIC STM32F10XC8 SYSTEM BOARD”. It came complete with…
A busy Week
It has been a busy week here in the cave and as well as reviewing the likes of the new Sonoff TH16 units I’ve been doing various improvements – not to mention getting to grips with the VT100 terminal commands, squeezing the best from the somewhat dwindling Spanish heatwave and…
ESP SDK and RBoot Woes
Remember I did an article entitles Serial Woes? Well that’s been changed to serial success as we found bugs in tools and gained an understanding of the USB FTDI handshaking lines – which altogether led to improvements in the Node-Red Arduino node and a completely working solution for USB Serial…
Chip First Looks
Right now I’m finishing up my installation on the little CHIP board – only to find that WEBMIN would not work – and why is that? Well, the entire WEBMIN site down and also this morning – SOURCEFORGE website was down!!! it’s back up now and webmin is now…
Blog Fixes
Apologies if you’ve been checking the blog today and noticed it appear in a smorgasbord of colour. I’ve been trying to fix an issue with login and menus – and in the end, started from scratch. Hopefully now all is working well. This all started with a note to ask…
Cricket Simulator
You would think there would be loads of these floating around, but no, people make them the hard way. So here, rescued from my original wordpress site – is my Digistump (Arduino) cricket generator (sound simulator). I figured this out back in 2014 while sitting in the sun in Spain.…