This is definitely looking like a good day… here’s the second item in today’s post, the long-awaited laser for my EleksMaker Laser Engraver…. See updates to original EleksMaker engraver blog entry for more. I am SO excited that this blue laser has turned up complete with upgraded 2.5A power supply…
ISDT Smart Charger C4
As you can imagine, I’ve looked at many chargers, lots of them have proven to be disappointing, many are just plain boring. Early days but this ISDT C4 charger (from Banggood) looks neither. Indeed it looks marvellous. From initial impression through to operation this looks like a complete winner to…
The Tattu Wall Charger
Full of excitement, I opened the mail this morning to find my shiny new TATTU wall charger from here https://www.genstattu.com/tattu-qc-18w-usb-ac-adapter-wall-charger.html The excitement took a momentary hit as I soon discovered that my Qubot Note+ smartphone does not handle the high speed Quick Charge 3 option which would have been indicated…
NanoPC T4 from FriendlyArm
I’ve been itching to say SOMETHING about this new SBC board from FriendlyArm. This clearly is not meant to compete with the Raspberry Pi – not at the price –it is meant to blow it away. The NanoPC-T4 is “by far the smallest RK3399 based high performance ARM board with…
DSO Module for LAP-C
Some of you will recall that last year I wrote about the excellent ZeroPlus Logic Cube PC-based logic analyser – part of their LAP-C series. To make life easy, here’s the original article – https://tech.scargill.net/zeroplus-logic-cube/ The Logic Cube is a great all round logic analyser in a handy case and…
Inexpensive 200W Car Inverter
I just bought this unit for the car from Ebay – 200w mains out and 6.8a total over 4 USB sockets, small and light, too. A far cry from inverters of only a few years ago and for a measly £20 + post.
Allmaybe USB Wall Charger
The last item (or pair of items) today are the strangely named Allmaybe USB wall charger (American fitting) complete with universal mains adaptor (US/EU/UK). Maximum USB rating 3.5 amps total from the dual outputs. Granted the name is odd, but this equipment packs plenty of power and looks well constructed.…
ADEASKA SQ4 LCD Charger
I’ve been waiting for this intelligent charger for a while.. a 4-battery charger with button-programmable individual charge of 0.5a, 1a and 2a per battery. But what makes this one a little special is this: it handles Ni-CD, NI-MH, LifePO4 and Li-Ion batteries of varying sizes. In short it’s a winner.…
XY003 Solar Sensor Light
Today I received the XY003 Solar Sensor Light, a delightful outside (and well made) solar wall light which came from Banggood, branded as ARILUX® AL-SL18 1W Solar 15 LED PIR Motion Sensor Wall Light — https://goo.gl/N532TB – the 15 LEDs give off LOTS of light when required and is a…
JEWEI Colour TFT USB Tester
Today in the post I received a little Jewei USB tester from Banggood – to give it the full title – JUWEI Multifunctional Color TFT USB Tester Bluetooth Type-C PD Digital Voltmeter, Current Meter, Ammeter, Power Bank Charger Indicator. Banggood asked me to include this link: JUWEI Multifunctional Color TFT…
30V 10A Bench Supply Wanptek
Today I received a rather lovely power supply from Tomtop. I have a number of bench supplies but nothing with this kind of power… Nicely packed and complete with UK power adaptor. There was additional packing around this box.
Bluetooth Speaker Giveaway
Uptated June 10, 2018. You will have seen my blog entry recently about goodies from Inateck including their The BP1109 Bluetooth speaker which I’m now using a lot… it is lovely. Well, they wanted another bite at the cherry so to be in with a chance to win one of…
Plant watering Fiasco
As more technical people wake up to the folly of trying to use simple resistive DC plant moisture sensors, it seems the Chinese have latched onto the idea of capacitive sensing… And here it is, the sensor that is all over Ebay right now at am amazingly low £2 inc…
Keyboard KBO2001 from Inateck
And here it is, another package from Inateck, this time their KBO2001 Bluetooth numeric keypad – and very nice it is, too. Again the multi-language manual. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C1TSTYV
Big Timer Status
I occasionally get comments in the blog about people having problems with BigTimer, virtually all get resolved by users themselves and it is quite some time since BigTimer has actually had any problems, so for clarification, here it is working alongside Blynk, inject nodes and with MQTT. I am currently…
Goodies from Inateck
In today’s postbag came three items from Inateck, namely a lovely small, well packaged Bluetooth plus aux input, a USB powered Bluetooth loudspeaker, completed with leads. The unit also supports a microSD card. Also in the post from the same company, a tiny Bluetooth receiver/transmitter and a quality dual-phone mains…
Deceitful Advertising
Sometimes I wonder what has happened to trading standards in the Internet age. Today it is apparently perfectly ok to lie through your teeth when advertising, particularly when you can later hide behind the language barrier. See particularly bollocks advert here at AliExpress. They don’t do themselves or us any…
OLED just a quick one
Blog reader Ian Sexton has some boards going cheap for people who want ESP8266 based OLED. http://myiot.co.uk/ESP_OLED/ – I’ll leave it up to Ian to comment further.
The New FriendlyARM K1 PLUS Board
In today’s postbag, a pair of the new NanoPi K1 PLUS boards from FriendlyARM. These powerful H5-based boards look interesting and in this case came complete with heatsinks, Pi-size transparent case and handy FTDIs for programming.
FY6800 Signal Generator
In today’s postbag, the new Feeltech FY6800 dual channel Signal Generator, complete with UK power lead, two bnc test leads, USB lead and bnc-bnc lead. However the unit came with no instructions or other paperwork. I assume a manual will follow later. The unit arrived well-packed via FedEx. Lovely to…