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 a little bit useful project with these eight LEDs. A seven-segment display is therefore perfect Read more…
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 light and my newest word clock, which requests the time via the Internet and displays Read more…
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 time via radio. But this time the plan is to make the clock bigger, prettier 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…
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…
With this post, I want to start with the description of the software for my mobile robot. One of the first things I’m setting up in the software is an OTA (Over the Air) update function for all my components on the robot. That means besides the Raspberry Pi, I Read more…
After a long time has passed, here is an update on the current major project MOBROB. My completely self-built mobile robot. In the last post, I introduced the basic functions. The next step is to place the complete electronics nicely on the robot, so that there is still enough space Read more…
I started to build my first mobile robot with Mecanum Wheels a few weeks ago. In this post, I would like to show a look at the hardware structure. The software is an ongoing process and will be a topic in several future articles. Parts for the mobile robot I Read more…