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How to Run Your ESP8266 for Years on a Battery – Open Home Automation
This is a topic that has a lot of significance for the GadgetBox platform. There are lots of IoT projects that need as much battery life as can be squeezed out of them. This awesome article explains how to squeeze 3 years of battery life out of an esp8266 module! https://openhomeautomation.net/esp8266-battery/
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Get your 3D case design for Papilio Logic Analyzer over at Thingiverse
Papilio user Larry McGovern just posted this beautiful design for a 3D printed case that turns your Papilio Logic Analyzer into a sleek device. Here is the original Forum Post. Here is the Thingiverse Link.
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See how a PCB is manufactured.
What an incredibly helpful video! See first hand all the steps to manufacture a PCB. This answers all the questions I’ve always had when designing a board… Via EEVblog
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Node-Red – A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things
As we continue to puzzle out all the different approaches to create an IoT application something that caught our eye was Node-Red. It’s billed as a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things. The home page says this: Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and…
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Setting Up Your Own Arduino IoT Cloud Server – DZone IoT
With the soon to be released GadgetBox IoT enclosures we have been on the hunt for server solutions to drive our IoT devices. We really like Blynk so far, but it is not free. So when we saw this VPS based solution we knew it was something to put on the list to evaluate! If anyone gets a…
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How to Whack a Mole with your FPGA, but Not Physically!
Good day FPGA Enthusiasts! FPGAs can be used for a versatile set of applications from real time engineering solutions to building funny games. Today’s post is going to focus on the latter where we build yet another game concept using a FPGA board (you may need to adapt your own). The game in consideration is…
clock divider, coding, Design, FPGA, game, Hacks, how-to, LED, score keeper, Tutorial, VHDL, Whack a mole -
Build your own Mandelbrot Fractal Generator with FPGA
Greetings FPGA lovers! Today’s post takes you into yet another interdisciplinary project that links pure mathematics, FPGA and VHDL to build something beautiful! The Mandelbrot set is a series of complex numbers that tend to infinity when operated upon by a special operator. These numbers when grouped together create a beautiful image sequence which might…
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9 Easy Steps to Build a Photosensitive Synth Machine with FPGA
Hello FPGA lovers! Engineering traditional synth machines using development platforms like Arduino and FPGAs is becoming quite the trend now. Today’s post however takes a twist from the traditional synth machines where sounds are produced by either flicking switches or pressing buttons. The synth machine under discussion is a photosensitive synth machine which uses LDRs…
Breadboard, coding, Design, FPGA, Hacks, how-to, LDR, photosensitive, step-by-step, Synthesizer, syth, Tutorial, VHDL
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