Simple Frankenbot with lights and sound effect
I was inspired by the cute Frankenbot papercraft from Instructables, so I thought why not make it truly alive by giving it some blinking lights […]
IoT Gas Sensor with ESP8266
I had been wanting to get the gas sensor working with my ESP8266 as an additional item on the IoT list. So similar to the […]
Arduino Dice simulator
I was looking at my kids playing snake and ladder tonight, and came an idea in my mind “why don’t I make a dice simulator?”. […]
RFID enabled tag
This RFID enabled tag tutorial show a simple RFID circuit that connects to Arduino. The circuit will detect the RFID card and play a simple […]
The simplest Mario speaker song circuit
The other day I stumble upon a simple circuit to create a speaker song. So naturally I try it out and it seems to be […]
Disco Light using LED Strip
My Daughter had a disco night to attend, so what could be better than equipped her with and LED Strip which will flash through the […]
PS3 CFW 4.82
I am trying to use my PS3 today and it seems that my son had accidentally upgrade the firmware to the latest Official Firmware 4.82. […]
BTCmarket ticker using ESP8266
With the recent fall of Bitcoin and other crypto currency and my continue interest in learning more about Arduino, after reading several other instruction of […]
IoT Motion Sensor with light
This is the extension of the earlier post IoT Temperature Sensor with ESP8266. The extension is to additional IoT Motion Sensor with light. Here are […]
Light Activated MP3 player (Part 2/2)
This is the continuation of the Light Activated Mp3 player Part 1. Once we had tested that our MP3 is fully functional, it is now […]
Light Activated MP3 player (Part 1/2)
Light activated MP3 player was incepted when I wanted to add something special to the present that I gave to my Mrs. So while I […]
Password Protect PDF document using windows Powershell script
Password protect PDF document can be done using Windows Powershell script. I stumble across a powerful script which allow to password protect PDF document using […]
Solving “insecure string pickle” in youtube-dl
I am trying to use youtube-dl to download something for my missus, and the error “insecure string pickle” issue is preventing the video being downloaded. […]
Send message to LED matrix using Bluetooth
The next iteration of the LCDMatrix in the earlier post is to add a Bluetooth module HC-05 to the Arduino. This will allow us to […]
Windows 10 can’t see network drive
I had a problem where my windows 10 can’t see network drive, all the mapped drive can’t be accessed. I had been pulling my hair […]
LED Matrix Scrolling text with Arduino using a 74HC595
The extension to the previous letter guessing game, I found a font library from a post in Instructables, and this leading me to create a […]
Emergency recovery shell in berryboot
Every now and again you would experiment with things in raspberry pi, in this instance I am playing around with the wall display called Dakboard, […]
TERM support in Screen command
When you get the following error message when trying to start screen Cannot find terminfo entry for ‘xterm-256color’. you will need to find the which […]
Backup Raspberry Pi remotely
To back up your raspberry pi remotely, you will need to know the ip address, then using the following command ssh pi@xx.x.x.xx “sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 […]
Fixing corrupted Time Machine backup
If you are a MAC user, the following message pop up at times. “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time […]