Marrinations
Marrinations
Fence Post Lights
2024-02-17 17:50
A while back I built a fence across the back of my property. It was made of wood but the posts were steel cylinders with 2x4's attached to each side where the fence panels were attached.
Placid
2018-11-07 17:13
Placid is a cross-platform operating system for embedded systems. It can run on platforms as small as Arduino and ESP8266 all the way up to Raspberry Pi. The source code is available with an MIT licen...
QUICK WEEKEND PROJECT: RESURRECTING A CLOCK
2017-04-16 12:43
I have this Frank Lloyd Wright desk clock. I love the art and simplicity of it. In fact I love it so much that I've had it on my nightstand for 2 years without it working! The problem is t...
PUTTING DATA IN ESP8266 FLASH MEMORY
2017-01-16 12:48
The ESP8266 has precious little RAM. You start with a little over 80KB, but the system takes up over 20K of that just for wifi and other required functionality. So best case you get under 60K of RAM f...
MULTICAST DNS TRIBULATIONS
2016-09-21 12:51
For my m8rScript project I really want to use Bonjour. It would give me a way of finding many ESP8266 devices on the network without having to nail down IP addresses. The concept is simple: you give y...
M8RSCRIPT
2016-09-21 12:29
The Internet of Things is really taking off. The ESP8266 has made it possible to add a powerful process with wifi to any project for a couple of bucks. Whether you doing a one off art project, or are ...
Easy Library Table
2014-07-13 17:13
My kids are in high school now so I thought it was time they had nicer desks than the ones we got them at Ikea. I wanted to make something that would last, that they could take with them to college an...
JOINERY FOR THE EVERYDAY WOODWORKER
2014-07-13 17:12
Probably the most important skill for any woodworker is joinery. Attaching pieces of wood to each other is required on most any project and if it needs to withstand any kind of load you need a good st...
EtherClock
2011-12-31 16:30
I've been planning on building an ethernet connected clock for some time now. It started as a project for my daughter, Mikayla. But my wife went out and bought both her and my other daughter Leah ...
Hi, my name is Chris and I have lots of hobbies. From woodworking, to Shapeoko, to IoT and other hardware projects, you’ll find it all here. I’ve been a professional software engineer for all of my life so my hardware and IoT projects always include a software component. My interest in IoT has lead me to the ESP8266 and to my m8rscript software project to drive it.