New Youtube vid – see below for code! The Youtube vid covers general concepts, and below I’ve listed the basic steps to getting this working, plus posted some code samples you can use. Buy your…
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DIY Multisensors – what are the options?
Preamble Let’s get one thing out of the way. Wireless vs. wired? One of my favourite YouTubers Andreas Spiess released a vid this week about PoE on the ESP32. Andreas touched on the discussion of…
Flashing the BlitzWolf BW-RC1 Infrared Blaster with Tasmota
I’m going to cover exactly how I flashed my BW-RC1 IR blaster. My reference was this article by Matthew Harrold, which pretty much says the same thing as I’ll write about here, but I’ll try…
Mat’s Mega 2560 Pro Breakout Board
Here’s a new breakout board I have designed and built. If you are interested in any of the following, then read on: Wired ethernet for home automation. Sure the ESP32 or ESP8266 are great, but…
We finished our first bonded screed
How did you spend your Christmas 2018? We spent it finishing our bonded screed. One electrical explosion (and a shipment of a £70 capacitor from the US), one broken wrist, a small amount of blood,…
Self Build – Basement waterproofing with the Delta Cavity Drain Membrane system
Firstly – thanks to Liam from Ardex. Great advice – stretching far beyond product advice. Bought my second mixer (Baron forced action) after a conversation with him! Alba from Prime Construction, our Building Inspector. Yes,…
The MatDuino – project ideas
Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t call it the MatDuino. But I need a name for this project. It stems from my recent musings about how wireless devices in the home, specifically #IoT devices, are subject to…
Review of Crunch Accounting
Crunch Accounting provides me with an amazing accountancy service and superb web app for me to manage my everyday business accounts. Yesterday I went on one of my regular “diversions” down an online rabbit hole,…
Mailbird 2.0 Review
I’d like to consider myself a child of the modern world, but … email. I’m a slave to it. I have a number of different enterprises that I run and look after, I administer 7…
On the Microsoft Pro-EU position – how not to write a letter
I wrote in a previous post that I have a gut feeling about the EU referendum. In fact I have a gut feeling about most things, which is all the more reason I like to subject…
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