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Nest and Solar Logger Update

12 December 2015 7 min read Home Automation

It has now been a week since we installed the Nest 3rd Gen Learning Thermostat and we have been able to try the auto learning and heating / hot water schedules the thermostat offers

Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Gen Hot Water Installation

04 December 2015 8 min read Electronics General Home Automation

Replacing our old dumb central heating controller with a Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Gen and Hot Water Installation

Starting your own ecommerce business

03 December 2015 11 min read General

After building websites for customers for over a decade we decided to start our own e-commerce business.

Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger Version 2

30 November 2015 12 min read Electronics General Home Automation Projects Solar Power Raspberry Pi

Time to replace our Raspberry Pi solar data logger with a new version 2 revision with more features and sensors

Mastervolt Soladin 600 Optical Interface Noise Fail

11 November 2015 4 min read Electronics Projects Raspberry Pi Solar Power

Trying to add an optical interface to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar mains inverter but had problems with unwanted RF noise from the inverter

USB MultiComms Part Four Case

11 November 2015 4 min read Electronics Projects

Putting everything together in an enclosure and making custom front panels.

USB MultiComms Part Three UART Board

11 November 2015 4 min read Electronics Projects

Designing an isolated USB to UART interface.

USB MultiComms Part Two RS232 Board

31 October 2015 6 min read Electronics General Projects

Designing an isolated USB to RS232 interface.

USB MultiComms Part One USB Board

15 October 2015 3 min read Electronics General Projects

Designing a modular serial interface for RS232, RS485, I2C, SPI and JTAG.

Sinclair ZX81 Kit Build

13 October 2015 3 min read Electronics Projects

We purchased a boxed and unopened Sinclair ZX81 Kit from eBay and decided to build it and see if it still worked after being in a box for over 30 years