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DIY 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…
Robotic
MOBROB: Behaviour-based control
In this article, I present the central concept of the robot control of my mobile robot. There are many different variants to structure the software for a robot. I will show you which one I Read more…
Robotic
MOBROB: ROS software architecture
After I presented the hardware architecture in an earlier article, I want to dedicate this article to the software architecture of my mobile robot MOBROB. The software architecture is based on Robot Operating System (ROS), Read more…
Arduino
LED light cubes with ATtiny and NeoPixel
This time I will show how I built the LED light cubes shown in the picture above. I call them TinyLightCube, as they using an ATtiny85 as a microcontroller. The cubes will change their color Read more…
Arduino
Fan control unit with Arduino
I show you how I build a pretty simple control unit for a fan, which should circulate the air around a heater. I used an Arduino Nano V3.0 as a microcontroller together with two CPUs Read more…
Arduino
Word clock with Arduino and Neopixel
In this post, I will build a super cool word clock with Arduino and Neopixel LEDs. Such word clocks cost several hundred euros in the trade, but with a little skill, they are also fast Read more…
others
Model house with Electric Light
In 2014 I have built a model house made of plasterboard and equipped with electric light in every room. Here you can find some photos and videos of the project. Each room has it own Read more…