ESP8266 Basement Monitor
My basement gets wet when it rains a lot so I wanted a way to monitor it. I decided to try using an ESP8266 as it has… Read More »ESP8266 Basement Monitor
My basement gets wet when it rains a lot so I wanted a way to monitor it. I decided to try using an ESP8266 as it has… Read More »ESP8266 Basement Monitor
We happened to find an old Zenith radio at a yard sale for not much money and decided to upgrade it, calling it Zen Radio.… Read More »Zenith DIY “Radio”
A while back in NYC I spotted the Miffy Lamp in a store window. Miffy is a character created by Dutch artist Dick Bruna used in children’s books. Since… Read More »Miffy
Making a stand alone Arduino is actually not all that hard. Five years ago I bought enough parts to make 10 of them. The… Read More »Stand Alone Arduino
Solar Powered WiFi Weather Station This cool weather station from Instructable user deba168 uses a 3D printed Stevenson Shield , a WeMos D1 Mini with ESP8266… Read More »Weather Station Roundup
Several years back we made a large fortune teller. We wanted to mimic an arcade cabinet. Instructions are displayed on the LCD screen and the fortune is printed out on a thermal printer. We had a lot of fun building this.
Here is what the fortune looks like.
A few years back we made a weather station. Since then we have moved and it is now gone. We are thinking of making a… Read More »Weather Station
We currently have a moisture issue in our basement and are looking for a DIY fix. Our solution is to use an Arduino DHT22 Humidity Sensor and… Read More »Humidity Sensor
This Saturday from 10 – 5 we will be at the Maker Faire in Burlington NC. Come say hello or if you are not in North… Read More »Maker Faire
A new book buy Andrew “bunnie” Huang has just arrived called The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware. This looks to be great read.… Read More »The Hardware Hacker