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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 25x25cm – 18mm thick wooden stick 5x10mm – 20cm long some wood glue Step-by-step instructions: Read more…
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 Docker on my Raspberry Pi 4. So I share here how I got Docker finally Read more…
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 IDE First, the latest version of the Arduino IDE needs to be downloaded and installed Read more…
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 implemented in MOBROB. Direct control The simplest option is the so-called direct control. Here, a Read more…
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), which allows me to extend the robot very modularly by functions. There are a lot Read more…
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 depending on how they are tilted. Parts For one color cube we need following parts: Read more…
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 fans. Requirements The fan shall turn on via a push-button mounted on a wall on Read more…
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 self-built. I show you how it works. The electronic base is similar to that of Read more…
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 lights, which can be turned on with a rotary switch. Highlights are the lights in Read more…
In this article, I document the few steps necessary to control the Wi-Fi switch Shelly 1 with a Siemens LOGO! 8. For this we use the help of the tool Node-RED, which is described on the own website as follows and is therefore perfectly suited for our use-case: Node-RED is Read more…