Raspberry Pi
Drink Water Reminder with Raspberry Pi Pico
I built a small project to test the Raspberry Pi Pico with the Pico LCD 1.3 module. This turns out to be a very nice gift for any person who sits in the office all Read more…
Raspberry Pi
3D-Printed Robotic Hand – Raspberry Pi Pico
I developed a 3D-printed robotic hand during my studies at the Technical University of Munich. I used a 3D printer to build the mechanical parts and a Raspberry Pi Pico for controlling the motors. Background Read more…
Arduino
7-segment display with APA102 LEDs and ESP8266
Here is one more small project I build on one weekend. the starting point was a spare “Raspberry Pi Blink!” mini LED strip originally planned for a Raspberry Pi. I wanted to build at least Read more…
Arduino
SMART LED LAMP: Getting started with ESP8266
In this article, I present my basic hardware and software parts for a smart LED lamp project, which is to be controlled via WiFi. Two examples of such a project are a decoration LED tube Read more…
Arduino
DIY Word Clock 2.0 with WiFi and NeoPixel
Two years ago I already built a word clock with NeoPixel LEDs. You can find the article about it here. At that time I built the word clock only with an Arduino and queried the Read more…
Raspberry Pi
Read data from a wood boiler and save it in MySQL
This project is part of a larger project to collect and visualize data from a heating system in my house. The heating system consists of several heating sources (wood, heat pump, solar system, and oil) Read more…
others
DIY Wooden Lamp
Design your own lamp? Not easier than that. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how I build my own DIY lamp from wood. For the DIY lampshade shown, we only need three materials: Wooden board Read more…
Raspberry Pi
How-to: Install Docker on Raspberry Pi
In this post, I shortly describe how to install Docker on Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspian Buster. There are many tutorials available describing the process, but I faced always an error when trying to install Read more…
Arduino
How-to: ESP8266 Programming with Arduino IDE
This post summarizes the steps to program an ESP8266 with an own program written with Arduino IDE. I used the ESP8266 for example in the project MANU – 3D printed robot hand. Installation of Arduino Read more…