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JeeLabs: Turning the page on 2015
As the last few days of 2015 pass, I’d like to reflect on the recent past but also look forward to things to come. For one, the JeeLabs weblog is now thriving again: the new weekly post-plus-articles...
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JeeLabs: Preparing for a new weblog
Now that the WordPress-powered JeeLabs weblog has been replaced by a static set of pages, we need a way to continue adding new weblog posts and articles. The current approach is clearly an...
View ArticleJeeLabs: My New Year's resolutions
It’s that time of year again - the last day of 2015. Another year gone by. A new one waiting in the wings. In an increasingly connected and technocratic world. Time for making plans.EnergyFor 2016, my...
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Nathan Chantrell.net: Orvibo S20 WiFi Mains Socket with Node-RED
Orvibo S20 WiFi Smart SocketFor years I used X10 for all my remote controlled sockets but the unreliability eventually drove me to RF based sockets, the Home Easy ones in particular as you can’t beat...
View ArticleFairTradeElectronics: Streaming Your Showbox Films To Your Xbox Console
Xbox has become one of the state-of-the-art gaming consoles, used by many people. This has been created on the basis of fundamental 2D gaming system to the sophisticated practical gaming concept....
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JeeLabs: Sh(r)edding those CDs & DVDs
If you’ve been around for a while, taking in the wonders of “personal computing” as it happened, then you’ll probably also have collected lots of disks with bits on them over the years. It started with...
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JeeLabs: Getting (a bit more) organised
More spring cleaning. This has been keeping me busy for a couple of days, so I thought I might as well write about the issues and solutions I’ve found for them:Sh(r)edding those CDs & DVDs -...
View ArticleFairTradeElectronics: Rice Cooker – Best Solution For Cooking Rice Perfectly
With the busy schedules, many people hardly get enough time to cook their food and if you are among one of those people then you must take your foot forward for purchasing few simple kitchen appliances...
View ArticleJeeLabs: Squashing tons of source code
And then came internet, open source software, and public code repositories…Never before has it been possible to access so much software, of all kinds, in any programming language, for any application,...
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JeeLabs: Keeping track of lab supplies
There’s this nasty thing with electronics: There Are So Many Kinds Of Tiny Little Components!If you’re into hardware and building circuits, you’ll quickly find out that not only are there so many...
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JeeLabs: Arduino shields... or not
Once upon a time, when the Arduino was still young, someone made a mistake with the headers on its PCB, placing one of the headers off the standard 0.1” placement grid - as used by just about...
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JeeLabs: A base board for the Hy-Tiny
There are many Arduino “shields” out there, i.e. boards which fit on top of the Arduino Uno and compatibles. Even for one-off prototypes, it may make sense to use this form-factor, as it allows you to...
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JeeLabs: Side-stepping the 0.06" mistake
As mentioned before, the one thing standing between an Arduino and convenient protoyping, is that horrid 0.06” mis-alignment of one of its headers.No longer - meet this...
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JeeLabs: Overcoming JET lag
Long-time readers of this weblog know that the topics here have always been all over the map - electronics, digital design, embedded firmware, but also trying out new stuff, getting organised,...
View ArticleJeeLabs: JET, as seen from 9,144 meters
The JET project name is an acronyn for “JeeLabs Embello Toolkit”. And with that out of the way, please forget it again and never look back. A few more acronyms will be explained when the subsystems are...
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JeeLabs: Ongoing software development
Ok, with those (somewhat vaguely-defined) requirements down, how do we even start to move in this direction?Well, we’re going to have to make a number of decisions. We will need to build at least one...
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JeeLabs: Architecture: it's all about data!
Code vs. data… there are many ways to go into this oh so important dichotomy.Here is a famous quote from a famous book, now over four decades old (as you can tell from its somewhat different...
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JeeLabs: What's in a hub?
The restart of the JET project is progressing nicely. This week’s episode is about installing a first version as a basic-yet-functional new core system and describing / documenting some of the central...
View ArticleJeeLabs: An introduction to JET/Hub
This is the start of a series describing “JET v4”, and in particular the “hub” subsystem. JET is a system which is intended to bring together all the home monitoring and automation tasks here at...
View ArticleJeeLabs: Connecting to serial ports
The main mechanisms for communicating between devices around the house in JET are via serial communication and via Ethernet (LAN or WLAN) - often in the form of USB devices acting as virtual serial...
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