ESP8266
My last post was about the Cricket ESP8266 board, a tiny device that lets you run an ESP8266 for months on a single AA battery. In my Facebook post about that article, one of the commenters was Guy Sheffer who writes the Guysoft blog. I'd heard of Guy
MOSFET
Today is the day I almost forgot I'm a maker. Say hello to a beloved family member - Mufasa! Mufasa is a Maltese, his hair needs to be trimmed once in a while. Instead of paying tons of money to a professional dog barber, I've bought
ESP8266
A chance encounter on a Facebook group brought me - literally - to the Edge. I read a post in which someone mentioned the ThingsonEdge "Cricket" board. A plethora of hostile comments followed. Everyone said it was too expensive, wasn't sufficiently capable, or superfluous in today&
docker
Hey, its been a while. That probably because I'm knees deep in Technion's Autonomous & Perception course, of the Aerodynamics & Space faculty. As for the final project, we ought to implement (and improve): Sampling-based robotic information gathering algorithm, By Geoffrey A. Hollingerand Gaurav S. Sukhatme.
IOT
A couple of months ago I posted a project to build a router-restarter with an simple ESP8266 and a relay. The post proved to be very popular - but many people disapproved of the technique. Most of the project critics live in advanced countries with sophisticated internet infrastructure and they
Arduino C
How to accurately control the timing and motors of a stepper motor. A practical example on an unusual project. A watch winder is typically a small box with a motor that is powered by a battery. If you wear your Rolex or mechanical watch daily, it is likely that you
DS3231 Real Time Clock
Generally at whatimade.today we post original projects we dream up ourselves. Today's post is a little different. We're going to describe how we constructed Mirko Pavleski's single-digit clock. We made it because it's a fun project, wonderfully impressive to look at,
C++
Couple of years back, I've bought an automatic watering system, to water my plants on the window (back then, we lived on 3rd floor). At first It was nice, and finally the plants stayed alive. But as time passed, I've noticed that the watering system sipping
python
HalloPy, renewed. Couple of years back, I've made this awesome project: Basically, its a controller, that extract 6-DOF values from hand-motions, using a regular 2D camera. And I took it very seriously, because it was my first project and all. * I've consulted with some friends for
EDA
My wife and I have this argument, that is as ancient as time itself - WHO DRIVES BETTER? (The answer is, obviously me, right?) I bet y'all know that feeling, when sitting in the passenger seat, filling nausea and is difficult to rest, let alone sleep. Well I
router
The weakest link of our digital lives at home is the pipe into our house and the device it's attached to. Our cable-modem allows our equipment to communicate with the outside world. Like all computers, modems are prone to crashing; some of us need to restart at least
Arduino
A few months ago I documented the process for creating a large 7-segment LED display. After figuring out the pin locations, the wiring, and the code, I attached an Arduino Nano to a daughter board to create a beautiful self-contained 4-digit display. ###Adding a Real-Time Clock (RTC) When co-blogger, Allan,