My wife has always wanted to have a water ornament in the garden. To her pleasure my father-in-law wanted to remove his and we were allowed to have it. After a thorough cleaning, the Fountain light turned out to work only partially. Half of the Fountain light LED’s no longer worked. Upon which my wife […]
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We can make plenty of PCB designs using KiCAD, a powerful open source CAD tool. What makes them unique is customized Logo and brand names. KiCAD offers us a feature to add logos in any of the silk screens; bottom or top. Rather than just a textual logos, a graphical logo makes the design look
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Here are the first versions of the Reference Sheets, sometimes the are also called cheatsheets, These Reference Sheets are a concise set of notes used for quick reference. In more general usage, a Reference Sheets is any short (one- or two-page) reference to terms, commands, or symbols where the user is expected to
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As I’m working on the ESP HomeKit project’s I needed a machine that was running Linux. Because my MacBook Pro did not support the needed software to compile the necessary binary files. So had come up with a solution. Oracle VM VirtualBox is a free package that provides me with the needed solution. It can
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For a new ESP HomeKit project I need a Motion Sensor. There are Serveral options out there, but the most common ist the HC-SR501 Passive Infrared (PIR) Motion Sensor. Becuase there is more to it than just sense motion, I gonna explain the fuctions from this little device. The HC-SR501 Passive Infrared (PIR)
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When you are creating a PCB first you start with the scheme when this is done you will design the PCB, generate Gerber files and place an order at a PCB manufacturing company or make your own PCB. When this is done, with most uncomplicated PCB you know where to place the right component. But
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In my previous blog here I tested the ESP HomeKit Software Development Kit. I am so enthusiastic about this Software Development Kit, that I going to write a few blogs about this genius software. In each Blog I will address a other accessory that you can add to your HomeKit without the need of a
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In my previous blog here I tested the ESP HomeKit Software Development Kit. I am so enthusiastic about this Software Development Kit, that I going to write a few blogs about this genius software. In each Blog I will address a other accessory that you can add to your HomeKit without the need of a
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In my previous blog here I tested the ESP HomeKit Software Development Kit. I am so enthusiastic about this Software Development Kit, that I going to write a few blogs about this genius software. In each Blog I will address a other accessory that you can add to your HomeKit without the need of a
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In my previous blog here I tested the ESP HomeKit Software Development Kit. I am so enthusiastic about this Software Development Kit, that I going to write a few blogs about this genius software. In each Blog I will address a other accessory that you can add to your HomeKit without the need of a
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