Welcome

My goal is to help Makers of all skill levels to find the information that they need to be successful in bringing their creations and ideas to life. This site contains a blog with posting of what I worked on the previous week, what I plan to work on this week, and things that I’ve found interesting in the world of making and hacking. I may occasionally dive into other topics. I hope you find the information in the blogs interesting and would like to get your feedback. Please let me know what things you find interesting.

In addition to the blog posts, there are detailed project builds. These pages will be created and updated over time. The intent of the project pages is to provide step by step guides on how I put my projects together. Please comment if you run into any problems or find errors in the project pages.

Latest Blog Posts

Quick Update

Just wanted to drop a quick update as I have not been able to post for the past few weeks. I am working on a couple of projects that I plan to write about shortly. Speech Timer Clock I have been working on a speech timer clock for my Toastmasters Club. I took an alpha…

Meshtastic with Raspberry Pi (Serial) – Part IV

In this part of the Meshtastic with Raspberry Pi (Serial) series, we will be writing some code to test the connection, then adding to our code to send sample data. When sending data, we will format the message to allow us to reject data if it is not formatted correctly and do some simple error…

Meshtastic with Raspberry Pi (Serial) – Part III

In this part of the Meshtastic with Raspberry Pi (Serial) series, we will be installing Meshtastic to the LilyGo T-Beam devices. We will then create a Meshtastic Channel on one LilyGo T-Beam and replicate the channel to the other LilyGo T-Beam. We will then wire the Raspberry Pi and LilyGo T-Beam devices. Install Meshtastic Firmware…

Meshtastic with Raspberry Pi (Serial) – Part II

In Part I, we installed the Raspberry Pi OS and connected to the Raspberry Pi using PuTTY and VNC from another PC. In Part II, we will install Visual Code on the Raspberry Pi to allow us to code directly on the Raspberry Pi using a modern IDE. It is not required to install Visual…

Meshtastic with Raspberry Pi (Serial) – Part I

In this post, I will step through getting Linux installed on a Raspberry Pi with an overview of different installations, and detailed setup on a headless installation. I will then move into connecting the Raspberry Pi to a LilyGo T-Beam device with Meshtastic Firmware, with the connection to the Raspberry Pi using a Serial Connection.…

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