I have been fascinated by Domotica all my life. As a small child I visited all the house of the future (The House of the Future, a project by Chriet Titulaer, was opened in the summer of 1989 in the Netherlands ), an experience that stayed with me all my …
As the ones who are following me for a while know that a own a TEVO Tarantula – Prusa i3 3D printer. I bought this printer a few years back. yesterday I downloaded the new Ultimaker Cura software. Ultimaker Cura prepares your model for 3D printing. I had to change …
Hand soldering Surface Mount Devices (SMD) scares a lot of Makers, but it is easier than what it looks like. Even sometimes, it’s easier than soldering Through Hole Components. Really! The Components are naturally held in place by their legs, while SMD are just sitting flat on the PCB, only …
In my previous blog I covered the hardware and software and part II here for my Raspberry Pi® – Powerunit® project. Now its time for the PCB Design. KiCad Although KiCad (pronounced ‘Kai-Cad’, not ‘Key-Cad’ like the thing that goes in a lock) is the new hotness when it comes to …
Because I’m currently busy with several Raspberry Pi® projects. I found that some of my older MicroSD cards where not preforming as I tough the should. In my experience, one of the highest-impact upgrades you can perform to increase Raspberry Pi® performance is to buy the fastest possible microSD card …
I was well on my way with my Powerunit© project until I stumbled upon a problem. I had created my GitHub repository, uploaded all scripts. Everything deems to go well, but when I installed the scrips on my Raspberry Pi© it returned the error message code=exited, status=203/EXEC. So it’s time …
In my previous blog here, I have figured out the basic hardware & software setup for my Powerunit® project. Now Its time to fine tune the Software. PowerUnit® Project – Software phase Now that the everything is working I want to fine tune the software a little bit more, and …
How to program a ATTiny I discussed in my previous blog here. But I want to go even smaller! In stead of using the “big” DIP IC housing I wan to use the smaller SOP IC housing. But then I realized how to program these tiny things, they don’t fit …
One thing that was still missing for me on the Raspberry Pi®, was the inclusion of some kind of power switch. Considering how many common Raspberry Pi® projects could make use of this functionality. Still, we’ve lived with this problem with the old version for a long time, and there …
For an upcoming project I need to improve the electrical characteristics of the PCB by increasing the width of the Ground and Vcc tracks. Let’s start with the track width. You can control the width of each track manually. The method involves creating custom track’s widths and then applying one …
