Collaborate Disseminate
Showing images on a TFT or OLED display with a small AVR microcontroller can be a challenge as it requires significant storage space. One solution is to compress the images, …read more Continue reading Squeezing GIFs Into Even Tighter Spaces
A pet tracker has a particularly grueling set of requirements: small, light, rugged, incredibly long battery life, safe for the pet, and cheap. [Mihai Cuciuc] was looking at the options …read more Continue reading Giving Your Pets A Digital Squeak
Let’s say you’re working on an ESP32 project to send off to your grandma; something she can just plug in and it will start automatically monitoring her plant’s water levels. …read more Continue reading Push ESP32 Over The Air Updates From GitHub
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a handy little microcontroller that has become a widespread addition to many hackers’ workbench. The Pico W has a CYW4342W module (just like the Pi …read more Continue reading Roll Your Own WiFi Driver For the Pico W
There’s no doubt that the 7-segment display is a gold standard for displaying lighted digits. But what about a throwback to an older system of displaying numbers — Cistercian? With …read more Continue reading Serial Cistercian Digit Module
With billions of computers talking to each other daily, how do they decide anything? Even in a database or server deployment, how do the different computers that make up the …read more Continue reading Building Your Own Consensus
[JBV Creative] recently became a proud owner of a laser cutter and, like most of us, started to think about what they could make with it. The answer was simple, …read more Continue reading Acrylic Light Puzzle Has A Point
Standing desks (also known as sit-stand desks) are somewhat polarizing. The height is adjustable, but the idea is that you move between sitting and standing while you work. Hundreds of …read more Continue reading Standing Desk With a Clever Flair
For those who model CAD models regularly, a pair of calipers is essential as it allows reasonably accurate measurements to fit a specific part. However, [Jason Harris] is taking that …read more Continue reading Taking Distance Based CAD To The Next Level
The idea behind Lua is a beautiful one. A simple and concise syntax offers almost all of the niceties of a first-class language. Moreover, a naive implementation of an interpreter …read more Continue reading Reinterpreting the Lua Interpreter