So, if you look at my post about Node-RED experiments and my portable powered breadboard, you’ll notice that the “power” LED isn’t lit on my home-made portable breadboard. I could have just wired the LED to the +5 of the power supply, but if the supply died then all lights would be out, including the […]
One of the things that drives me totally NUTS in my search for projects and source code that ACTUALLY WORKS, is it seems that not a lot of these posts, (for example, many I’ve found on Instructables) either aren’t proof read (i.e. poor grammar/translations) or they are completely out of date. I’ve seen many YouTube […]
Well, I finally got the LoLin NodeMCU V3 ESP8266 Module working with the Arduino IDE! I think I was having so much trouble getting it working because there are so many variations of these ES8266 DevKits out there and the documentation is really lacking. Looking at the underside of this particular module it says “Use […]
Here’s a great article (https://opensource.com/article/18/5/differences-between-linux-and-unix) I found on FlipBoard. <rantmode>I think there’s a lot of recruiters out there that should know that Linux is based on UNIX architecture and that there are TONS of Linux distributions out there! /<rantmode>
Apparently it seems Oracle has given up the ghost on Java Micro Edition and nobody really cares about J2ME anymore, judging by my Google searches to find solutions to coding problems I had. My initial goal was to build a weather station using 1-wire and J2ME since J2ME had some nice features. Also, it […]
I’m using Pete Scargill’s super timer node Big Timer on my Intel Edison and a Raspberry Pi W to experiment with Node-Red and developing a Dusk-Dawn timer. My wife is always mentioning that our low-voltage outside lights along the sidewalk to our front door always need to be adjusted because of Daylight Savings Time […]