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The Tale of “Nitecore” Keychain LED lamps …

Posted on August 14, 2019 by robert
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Once upon a time there was an overly enthusiastic browser of ebay items, instigated by “BigClive” to buy stuff. He purchased two Nitecore knock-off lights, a bit too cheap to be true! The packaging looks surprisingly good. Guess which one … Continue reading →

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Status lamp on the loose — Partial oven teardown

Posted on July 2, 2015 by robert

ARGH! I can’t be having with that! I do hope this lamp is a low voltage one…

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Small project #12 ⅔ — IKEA Samtid mood-light BT firmware

Posted on April 28, 2015 by robert

A user of the “new” version of the lamp has undertaken the heroic task of writing the Bluetooth code for controlling it! Here’s a sneak-peak:

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Small project #12 ½ — IKEA Samtid mood-light-upgrade upgrade

Posted on April 16, 2015 by robert

Someone, I won’t mention any names here, practically coerced me into upgrading this little project a bit. Now there’s the option to add a bluetooth module (HC-05, JY-MCU “ZS-040”), which supports remote code upload, or a WiFi module (ESP8266-1) using … Continue reading →

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Small project #12 — IKEA Samtid mood-light upgrade

Posted on August 16, 2014 by robert

This upgrade is based on the loved-by-everybody WS2812B intelligent RGB LED and works just fine with Adafruit’s NeoPixel library. The concept is – once again – rather simple. Whack a lot of WS2812B RGB LEDs onto a small board, add … Continue reading →

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