One of my goals this year is to become more proficient at Python programming. It’s something that I keep dancing around the edges of but I’ve never just dived right into it head first. I was having some issues getting motivated about it so I decided to try and find a way to make it…
Category: Electronics
Doing the things with electronics
End of month 1 summary
So here we are. Month 1 has come and gone. So how did it go? When I started thinking about how this month went I was initially a little disappointed. There were some electronics ‘basics’ that I still don’t have a firm grasp on which frustrates me a little. However, the more I thought…
Open Garage install and minor updates
Since I finished the prototype this week I decided to actually install it in place of the breadboard version in the garage. I ended up coming up with a poor mans mounting system where I drilled two larger holes through the prototyping board, put nuts on the back, then used other nuts to keep the…
Open Garage hardware prototype v1
Behold. My first actual prototype for my Open Garage project. Not much has changed at this point on the code end of things but the code was updated to account for a few things. Namely, I changed some of the pins I used and also updated how the button worked. Previously, I had one button…
Month 1 – End of fourth week review
Here we are at the end of the last full week of month 1. I made some good progress this week but there were a couple of days where I didnt do any work since I had family in town. I feel pretty good about the hardware components for the remote garage door opener and…
Ahead of myself…
I tried to resist getting ahead of myself – but I just couldn’t. My secret goal (secret because I didn’t want to tell you about if I couldn’t get it done) for this month was to start work on a remote garage door controller. After I started playing around with the nodemcu board I…
Month 1 – End of third week review
Sigh. I forgot to write this again. Oh well – here it is. I still think things are going rather well. However – I did spend a large chunk of this week trying to understand transistors. I really got hung up on the math to calculate the base resistor and I spent days trying to…
Getting started with NodeMCU ESP8266
I knew when I started all of this that my end goal was going to be working with micro-controllers. If you’ll recall my very first post you’ll know that I bought this NodeMCU ESP8266 board from Amazon for something like $8 which I thought was a great deal. Now that I’ve had a chance to…
Solder sucker
I didnt realize when I ordered this from Amazon that it wasnt Amazon prime. It showed up today from China after being ordered earlier this month. Sort of a nice surprise since i had forgotten about ordering it so I thought I’d try it out tonight. Long story short I love the thing. This works…