It’s over a year since I started this in late 2019. A work in progress, experimenting with the ESP8266 D1 Mini-pro and the ESP-01S running Tasmota. Connecting to a Orange-Pi attached to the back of a 22″ LCD screen and running InfluxDB and Grafana. This setup has been collecting data […]
The old analog cctv system have been updated to IP cameras and a dedicated NVR rather than a general PC and Zoneminder software. The mini-DVR has been modified to run on the 24V solar-battery system. Some more information Here.
Manual shipping of small packages through a NZ Post Shop has become significantly more costly with increasing prices and the introduction of a much more complex and time consuming customs form. For smaller Air-Post packages, until recently we would print the address label, attach it to the package and complete […]
NiMh Cells Seem To Be Fading Away We have used NiMh cells for years, but they are now harder to find and a lot more expensive. So we are switching the main batteries from 8-cell NiMh to 3-cell 18650 cells with a BMS. We still need a stable and safer […]
The problem: As of WordPress V5.0 they have inflicted the block editor onto us. I suspect this is a very bad attempt at a sort of year-1 finger-painting for web page creation. It may suit one page school projects quite well for anyone who has grown up with cellphones and […]
Wanting an OSD to display the basics and GPS information in a small FPV plane but not wanting to waste a lot of time playing flight controllers, I decided to try the MinimOSD Micro running with just a GPS module and a small current sensor. I don’t run Windows so […]
What is most annoying is that Vodafone created the fault and we had to wait two days for the repair. If they had said “oops our-bad” and repaired it same day – even if it was overtime – it would have saved me a lot of time, I wouldn’t be […]
This unit has gone to a new home A piece of our micro development past has moved on as of April-2019. During the late 1990s I developed some home automation controllers based on the 68HC11E20 which was one time programmable in a 52 pin PLCC package and later the 68HC11 […]