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Autonomous Fire Hazard System

“The time has come to automate our good old fire alarms and make them part of an interconnected world. Story Imagine your on vacation or out of town and there’s a fire in your house. You’ll probably be …

The Artificial Plant Emotion Expressor (A.P.E.X.)

“What is APEX? APEX is a smart (not to mention cute) plant monitoring device. Just plug it into any plant and it will display the “happiness” level of the plant! This is a great reminder to water your plants if …

ESP8266, BMP280, MQTT Weather Station

“This will guide you trough making a simple weather station with good accuracy. Here we use a ESP8266 WIFI development board to connect the sensor to the internet to save the data. A lot of flavorous exist and will work …

Fast SSD1306 OLED drawing with I2C bit banging

“The SSD1306 OLED displays are very popular with hobbyists due to their low cost and easy interfacing. The majority of the ones sold expose a two wire interface (TWI) aka I2C. The default speed for I2C is 100Khz and the …

How to Hack and Upgrade Your Car, Using CAN Bus

“This document is aimed at those unfamiliar with CAN bus or the reverse engineering process, it will cover some very basic and advanced concepts. It is assumed that the reader has moderate programming knowledge and basic electronics knowledge, however, links …

IR Remote Wand

“The IR Remote Wand is a universal remote control that you can program with up to five codes to control a variety of different products: IR Remote Wand universal remote control based on an ATtiny85. It supports some of the …

Low Cost DDS Function Generator for Makers

“Generating Sine, Square, Triangular, Sawtooth Waveform with Direct Digital Synthesizer method using PSoC 4 MCU and few passive components. Ever drooled over Oscilloscope, Function Generator, Logic Analyzer but can’t afford those cool stuffs? Then, here is the good news …

Make a Countdown Timer With Micro:bit

“Countdown Timer is very common in our daily life. It helps to remind you to do something on time in case of any possible delay or error. For example, a pedometer or a baking timer. Today we are going to …

Motorized Turntable

“When you think of the word turntable, you might think of something that you play a record on, but for this project, at least, we’re going to build a different type of turntable. A turntable, in the video and …

Publish an Event with ESP8266 via Wia’s MQTT API

“In this tutorial, we’ll go through setting up an ESP8266 board, and publishing an Event to Wia via our MQTT API. Connecting the board Note: If your board has a micro USB port, you can probably skip this step …