Now I’m sure y’all remember my previous rotary phone revival from exactly 4 years ago… This time however, instead of transforming it into a full mobile/GSM phone, the plan is to make it more “enterprise friendly” by using VoIP, more exactly the SIP protocol.
One month after I started hacking the above IKEA wall display I finally managed to finish writing the 2 (very) basic games and put everything together, ready to be displayed on a wall:
As I was browsing for furniture in our local IKEA the other day, I noticed these “wall lamps” and their potential for hacking immediately jumped at me !
So I had no choice but to purchase one and try to find some time after almost exactly 2 years since my last project…
This is the first in a (hopefully long) series of posts that try to follow the journey.
I recently finally found the time to do something with these 2 strips of WS2801 LEDs that I had laying around for years… and what better / more obvious idea given the time of the year, than build some over-engineered Christmas lights ?:)
This is a pretty straight forward project, though it still took a while to get everything fitting together nicely 🙂
The idea was to re-use this nice big volume knob from an old, analog amplifier, put it into a custom little box and make it able to control the volume of my computer.
I had a couple of these small ePaper boards, bought on sale a while ago, begging to be used in a project… I wasn’t sure what to do with them, until I saw James’ video about his message board.
Then it occurred to me: a small, ePaper display for my Google Calendar would be perfect ! True, we all check our phones regularly, almost compulsively, nowadays, but still, there’s nothing like having your tasks/appointments on a piece of paper ! Even if it’s of the “e” variety… 🙂
Especially if it’s for the shared family calendar, so that my wife and kids can also have it right there in front on them in the kitchen!
It works surprisingly well, and even the fact that the 150W motor feels rather under-powered when I try to use it (it does work but I feel like it could go faster and it does take a bit before it reaches top speed) could be considered a “feature” as it’s plenty of power for when the kids play with it in the park 🙂
One issue that we kept having was the 3D printed plastic motor mount would break when hitting small holes or irregularities in the asphalt.
When this year’s lock-down started a few months ago, I finally bought myself a long-board so that I could keep up with the kids on their bikes or scooters when exercising.
It didn’t take long before I remembered that I always wanted to
build an electric "toy" that could carry myself.
I contemplated a bike, a Go Kart and others, but it’s always been pretty obvious that the easiest to attempt would be a skateboard…
This is a brief post, mostly for my own usage / keeping track, detailing the few upgrades I did to one of the cheapest 3D printers out there, the Tronxy X1, which I bought a couple of years ago for my 8 years old son.
It turns out it’s much more capable than what I thought and I’m using it more and more often, as it has a slightly bigger print area compared to my other printer, the Mini Fabrikator II (I also have an old / initial version Ultimaker, on which I’ve given up, after years of frustration, mainly with the extruding system…).
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