Switcher – A WiFi Open Source Power Switch and Socket Based on ESP8266
The switch uses the prominent ESP8266-01 module, an Arduino program, a 3D printed box and modules. It is free and open source, so you can build and modify it on your own!
Shared project:
You never know what you’ll find when you open the projects feed on Hackaday.io. Most weeks, The Hacklet follows a theme of some sort. Sometimes I find projects that just look so cool that I have to get the word out about them. Such is the case with this week’s first project, Mr. Runner created by Alex Martin
Creating a four legged robot with a running bound gait.
Callum Nunes-Vaz repurposed an old soviet vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) for use in a wristwatch:
The VFD display (IVL2-7/5) is a piece of soviet new-old-stock (NOS), and has a unique look to it. Making a watch out of it is a logical progression for anyone wants to give portability to the mesmerising glow of the display.
Callum shared the board on OSH Park:
Here’s a video of the display in action:
Teensy-based weather badge that logs humidity and temperature to Adafruit.io via WiFi:
The Kicad design files and Arduino source code are hosted on GitHub:
teensy-wifi-weather-logger
The sensor data is logged to Adafruit.io via ESP8266’s WiFi connection:
Video of establishing WiFi connection and logging weather data:
OSH Park engineer Jenner Hanni posted on Wickerbox Electronics about his LiDAR project for the Teensy 3.2:
Teensy 3.2 daughter board to display the results of a LiDAR-Lite rangefinder on an LCD screen, with three buttons, two LEDs, and a micro-SD card for datalogging.
The KiCad hardware design files and Arduino source code are hosted on GitHub:
wickerbox/Teensy-Hats/LCD-LiDAR-SD-Hat
Jenner has shared his board on OSH Park:
RPUadpt is a shield for multi-drop serial communication of MCU boards (Irrigate7, PPUno, PuseDAQ). Serial lines are differential pairs. It has Full Duplex RS422 (RX/TX) and out of band Half Duplex RS485 bus manager that may (TBD) help with serial bootloaders (optiboot and xboot) in a multi-drop system.
epccs has shared the EAGLE board on OSH Park:
I created this board in KiCad to try out a SHARP memory display with the Teensy LC:
Pierre Muth has created a battery powered remote display for logging station:
Wireless remote LCD This tests using the famous ESP8266 and low consumption Sharp Memory LCD. Is it possible to have a compact remote display battery powered?
Muth has shared the board on OSH Park:
Last year, I built a robot based on Raspberry Pi and gave a demo on the Pi Day in Computer History Museum. I thought that it might be helpful to someone if I share how I built it.
Features:
funnyvale shared the board on OSH Park:
My attempt to home automation and wireless lightning. The goal is to get a similar function compared to the “Philips HUE” system but open source, using 6lowpan and allow for more than light’s to be connected. I’ve currently designed two boards; the gateway and a small LED-driver / 6lowpan device. On this page I’ve published […]
jop has shared the board on OSH Park:
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