Exciting times are upon us as the last couple of years 3D printing has really taken off. Driven by a large enthusiasts community of makers a lot of innovation and broadly available DIY sets for building your own 3D printer have become available and while they utilize an inferior technology (FDM – Fused Deposition Modeling instead of …
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ESP32 Incoming!
I’ve been a fan of the ESP8266 low cost, high powered IoT platform and their makers, Espressif just announced that they’ll be introducing a new chip named the ESP32 soon. It is not just a new module with the ESP8266 on it, but a whole new chip featuring many improvements. The improvements are among others: …
Allow me to Interrupt
Recently I had some problems with my I2C brightness sensor on my clock. It messed up the main routine of smoothly drawing the clock at a rate of 30 updates per second. Analog was a solution to this, but it didn’t solve the main problem of the design. Interrupts where the way to go if I …
Podcast Tip: Radiolab
A friend of mine, Vincent Kriek, pointed me to this excellent podcast and after listening to a couple of episodes I’m hooked. Spending a lot of time in the car travelling back and forth between ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Den Haag it certainly entertains and educates. The podcast’s name: Radiolab. Before this, I used to listen to …