Projects using electronic components and circuits
26 August 2021 12 min read 15,319 views
Adding Shelly EM power monitoring in the loft with Home Assistant
20 August 2021 9 min read 6,807 views
Adding remote Wi-Fi data access to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar PV inverter using an Espressif ESP32-WROOM-32UE module
15 August 2021 6 min read 8,254 views
Modifying a Sonoff POWR2 Smart Switch with energy monitoring to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a device's energy usage
03 August 2021 7 min read 5,694 views
Creating a wireless remote control to switch between video capture scenes in OBS Studio to select between our Microscope and other cameras or desktop capture using a Wi-Fi Remote Control
15 May 2021 6 min read 8,034 views
We have added several new Zigbee sensors to our smart home system which runs Home Assistant and the sensors talk to the home Linux server using Zigbee2mqtt
06 March 2021 1 min read 5,824 views
Teardown time with some old tablets that no longer work or charge, some Apple iPad Air 2 and Android Nexus tablets
15 February 2021 2 min read 2,479 views
Trying to avoid zapping electronics by adding new ESD Anti-Static matting on the bench and floor in our workshop.
18 January 2021 2 min read 8,013 views
Adding RGB to all the things in the loft workshop using an ESP8266 Wifi module to make a custom RGB LED Controller
14 January 2021 2 min read 6,382 views
PC built time for the loft workshop with a new AMD Ryzen 9 3900X PC build in Fractal Design Meshify S2 case
19 December 2020 9 min read 30,076 views
Teardown time with an Amazon Echo Dot 4th generation smart speaker, find out how Alexa is listening to you
18 December 2020 6 min read 9,672 views
Teardown time with an Amazon Echo Dot 3rd generation smart speaker with a built-in LED clock on the side
25 October 2020 4 min read 12,932 views
Modifying a Kasa Smart Plug by TP-Link Power to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a device's energy usage
07 April 2020 4 min read 5,399 views
Modifying a new eBay USB data cable for a Yaesu VX-6 radio which was sending wrong voltages to the radio and other missing parts from the circuit
11 March 2020 4 min read 7,148 views
Modifying a Pioneer SX-N30 Stereo Receiver to add a remote control 12-volt output
28 February 2020 5 min read 15,900 views
Fixing a blue flashing LED problem on our Synology DiskStation DS411+II NAS drive due to a bug with the Intel Atom C2538 processor
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Welcome to my blog, here you will find my projects and other things. I make websites and manufacturer and sell expansion boards for the Raspberry Pi range of computers.
You can see where I live on my local community website, Virtual Swanage.