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Screen died on me... It's time to use my stock of broken laptops for a good use

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Screen died on me... It's time to use my stock of broken laptops for a good use

Lately my monitor stopped working. It was during the weekend and there was no way to get a new monitor anywhere. I was working on some things and really wanted to finish them that weekend so I had to find a solution. I remembered that I've bought a

By notamacuser 07 Sep 2016
Realtime graphs using Plotly and websockets

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Realtime graphs using Plotly and websockets

As you already know, In our blog we use the websocket protocol intensively, It's a fast and easy way to send data from WiFi connected micro-controllers (such as the ESP8266) to the Browser without anything in between. Here are some projects with code samples where websockets were used:

By notamacuser 04 Jun 2016
Data junkies   (Part 1) - When should I wake up

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Data junkies (Part 1) - When should I wake up

Most of the days, me and my roommate commute to work by car, and we get out at different times everyday (it dependence on when we wake up, usually I'm the one who oversleeps). One day, my roommate had an idea: Why won't we log the

By notamacuser 09 Jan 2016
Timelapse   your holidays (Windows\Linux)

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Timelapse your holidays (Windows\Linux)

Today I found in my github a super simple python script for timelapse videos that I wrote a year ago. It uses opencv to capture images from the camera and ffmpeg to create the video after taking all the pictures It was created in Hanukkah you can read about it,

By notamacuser 18 Dec 2015
Flashing the NodeMCU firmware on the ESP8266 (Linux) - Guide

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Flashing the NodeMCU firmware on the ESP8266 (Linux) - Guide

I wrote also a windows guide, and most of it is relevant here as well, so make sure you go over it before: Windows guide First thing we need is to download the NodeMCU firmware. We do this by downloading one of these BIN files : Download nodemcu latest firmware After

By notamacuser 14 Jan 2015
Flashing the NodeMCU firmware on the ESP8266 (Windows)  - Guide

ESP8266

Flashing the NodeMCU firmware on the ESP8266 (Windows) - Guide

EDIT (07-Mar-15): If you own version 12 of the ESP8266 or any version where more GPIO are exposed read here about some additional info for flashing the firmware. So, I'm guessing that if you stumbled upon this page, You are probably a fan of the blog ;) or you

By notamacuser 13 Jan 2015
Mickey for the rescue

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Mickey for the rescue

So today I got a shipment from ebay (which is not such a rare occasion :D ) I've got 100 3v CR1616 batteries and a mickey mouse shaped cookie cutter and much more swag. I know it's seems random items but that's me.. I like

By notamacuser 19 Nov 2014
Bottled up - The making of a Water mattress,Kayak,raft from plastic bottles

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Bottled up - The making of a Water mattress,Kayak,raft from plastic bottles

This is the story of how being a hoarder is not such a bad idea (sometimes at-least) For some time, me and my roommate started collecting plastic bottles from all sorts of beverages but mainly mineral water... We kept them because we thought they could be useful for lots of

By notamacuser 09 Nov 2014

What is it all about?

This blog will serve a close group of makers for publishing their ideas and projects. We will try to take on other then our own initiatives some crazy unusable projects with no knowledge if they are possible or in what enviroment or constellation. If you ever had a crazy idea

By notamacuser 01 Nov 2014
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