Tag Archives: upgrade

YOUYUE 858D+ hotair station — Release V1.45

Posted on March 31, 2016 by robert

A small but helpful upgrade, if you’re into acquiring your own temperature calibration data. At some undetermined time in the future this might be expanded to a full multi-point calibration mode. The config menu was amended with the parameter ‘display_adc_raw’. … Continue reading →

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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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Small project #10 — IKEA Samtid reading-light upgrade

Posted on June 22, 2014 by robert

Yet another reincarnation of a PT4115 based LED lamp. This time I chose to add a micro-controller to the mix. No, not an ATtiny13 but an ATtiny45, as it contains a much desired feature for this job: high frequency PWM … Continue reading →

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Nitelite upgrade — another RGB thingy

Posted on February 28, 2010 by robert
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A few days ago I visited my parents. The main purpose was to ‘deposit’ my new Lecroy WaveAce 224 DSO. I bought it as a gift for myself, but I haven’t fulfilled all criteria to receive the gift yet. Therefore … Continue reading →

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Updating the Server — Welcome Debian, bye bye openSUSE

Posted on October 30, 2009 by robert

My provider has upgraded its VServer plans. Now offering 1GB of RAM, 20GB of disk and some more CPU power for the same price, but openSUSE was phased out. My old VServer only hat 256MB or RAM and was kinda … Continue reading →

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