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
PyPortal Event Countdown Clock Mods III
Some big updates to the software for the modified PyPortal Event Countdown Clock. The UI was changed and several features added. It also seems to be more stable as it does not lock-up randomly. Let’s get into the changes. Noticed that the temperature was several degrees too high. This was due to the ADT7410 being…
PyPortal Event Countdown Clock Mods II
I have implemented some of the items on my to do list from last week’s post and tested out a few more ideas. I have also published version 0.1 to GitHub. I want to provide a few details on version 0.1 of the code and what is being worked for version 1.0. The two releases…
PyPortal Event Countdown Clock Mods
I recently purchased an Adafruit PyPortal and looked at using John Park’s project PyPortal Event Countdown Clock project. It was fairly easy to get it up an running but switching from CircuitPython 4 to 8, proved to cause a bit of a challenge, not with the code, but with the libraries. Some were moved from…
Meshtastic Serial
I wanted to see about connecting a Raspberry Pi Pico to a LillyGo TTGO T-Beam v1.1 device. I noticed that Meshtastic supports serial communications, so I decided to give it a go to see how it worked. There are several serial modes but the ones that seem the most useful are TXTMSG and PROTO. First…
Psion Sidecar Part II
I’m going to dive in a bit on the Psion Sidecar that I covered last week and add some details to explain the RS232 connections and the switches on the Sidecar. Male DB9 Connector PinFunctionI/O Direction1Data Carrier Detect (DCD)Input2Receive Data (RD)Input3Transmit Data (TD or SD)Output4Data Terminal Ready (DTR)Output5Signal Ground (SG)6Data Set Ready (DSR)Input7Request to Send…
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