Archive for the ‘making’ Category
TV Cable Tidy
TL;DR If you’re putting a TV on a modern open stand then the ancillaries and cables can make a real mess and spoil the overall look. I put a board onto the VESA mount on the back of my TV to hold everything, which then let me arrange the cables into one tidy trunk running […]
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Tags: amp, AV, cable, DVD, DVR, mount, stand, tidy, tv, VESA
USB Shaver Charger
TL;DR I hacked together my own USB shaver charger using a cheap DC-DC converter I bought on eBay, so fewer worries (and things to carry) next time I’m travelling. Background I use an electric shaver most days, and I travel a fair bit. Usually the battery is enough to get me through a trip, but […]
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Tags: adaptor, Braun, cable, charger, DC-DC, hack, MC34063A, shaver, USB
I spent Saturday manning the @BrightonPi stand at Brighton Mini Maker Faire showing off various projects with Gareth James. It was great fun, and I really enjoyed talking to people about the potential of the Raspberry Pi. There were a few questions that got asked a lot… hence this post. The projects I was showing off […]
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Tags: BMMF, Brighton, ladder board, maker faire, MAME, Raspberry Pi, RPi, Targ, wifi
Sous vide steak
After making my Raspberry Pi controlled hot water bath over the weekend I’ve been itching to try it out. I got my chance this evening when cooking some steak for dinner. I get my steaks mail order from Donald Russell, so they come shock frozen and vacuum packed – so the ‘sous vide’ part is […]
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Tags: Raspberry Pi, RPi, Sous vide, steak, water bath
Temperature control for a sous vide water bath is a popular application for hobbyist microcontroller kits, with lots of well documented projects out there. My favourite is the Sous Vader – if only for the attention to detail in the decal on the box. I’ve been planning my own for a little while, and got […]
Filed under: code, making, Raspberry Pi | 24 Comments
Tags: 434MHz, control system, DS18B20, mains, PI, PID, python, Raspberry Pi, remote control, RPi, Sous vide, water bath
TL;DR I haven’t got this working (yet). There may even be limitations to the hardware that mean this couldn’t work. The general idea was to use a cheap ($4.99) Texas Instruments Stellaris Launchpad (LM4F120XL) board in place of a pricier ($34.95) Dangerous Prototypes Bus Blaster. All of the basic pieces seemed to be there – USB […]
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Tags: Bus Blaster, dev board, ICDI, JTAG, launchpad, LM4F120XL, OpenOCD, programmer, Stellaris, STM32, ti
STM32 dev the easy way
A while ago I bought an STM32 dev board from China on eBay, as it seemed to have so much more than the official Discovery boards coming with: A 2.4″ LCD with touch screen input 4 Pushbuttons (and a Reset button) 4 LEDs 2 Variable resistors A Micro SD slot A buzzer RS232 2 USB […]
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Tags: ebay, LCD, STM32, touch screen, VirtualBox, VM
Broken netbook media player
The screen on my wife’s Lenovo s10e gave up the ghost last week. I thought it might be just a loose connector and that I could fix it, and an initial attempt at strip down and rebuild seemed to work. Sadly my fix didn’t hold. I’ve been using my own s10e mostly to play videos […]
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Tags: keyboard, Kogan, netbook, remote, trackpad, tv, wireless
Arduino Simon – a little more
I wanted to add some diagrams to my original post, but didn’t have the right tools at hand. After some digging around I found a mention from @psd of Fritzing. I’m pretty happy with the results: I’ve put the Fritzing file up onto github, and also created a project on the Fritzing site.
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Tags: arduino, breadboard, circuit, diagram, Fritzing, layout, Simon
The title for this post comes from an old naval tradition, where a ‘make and mend‘ was time given to fix up clothing. These days sailors get their uniform from stores, and personal clothes from shops like the rest of us; so a modern day ‘make and mend’ is simply some time off. With the […]
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Tags: arduino, avrdude, bootloader, code, electronics, game, mend, Simon, stk500_setsync():, stripboard, welding
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