Project Summary (Technical Overview): I used aluminum channels and plastic diffusers to mount LED strips to the existing aluminum rails of Megadesk and tried to make it look as professional as I could. I used SK6812 strips which are RGBW, with the additional white pixel, as well as individually addressable. I had to get 2 […]
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Project Summary (Technical Overview): Breadnet is a local-network IoT server hosted on a Raspberry Pi4. It’s running whatever Raspbian OS is recommended, and hosts a Node-RED and Mosquitto server, and doesn’t do much else. Both Node-RED and the MQTT are insecure, because I can’t be bothered to SSL something that maybe 5 people both know
Project Summary (Technical Overview): Analog Synthesizer based on “Music From Outer Space” (MFOS)’s Noise Toaster design. There’s a two layer PCB design online, but I designed my own. I cut out some modules and adjusted some component values to my preferences. The whole thing runs on a single 9V battery, There is a VCO –
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O/Hiatus Ending 7/31/2022Up Next – P: 8/1/2022 – 8/14/2022 Summary: Now off Hiatus! I have moved to Washington and set my lab back up. I rebuilt the breadboard for the Mega Lights on a more permanent (and fire safe) protoboard with some screw terminals. I also modified the code so that the desk’s lights can be controlled
K: 5/23/2022 – 6/5/2022L: 6/6/2022 – 6/19/2022 Summary: Now on Hiatus! I’m moving to Washington so lab time has decreased considerably and will stay down for the next 2 months at least. I printed out a Redox Mechanical Keyboard, put in some black switches, ordered some Matcha Keycaps, and then hand-wired and soldered together the left
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5/9/2022 – 5/22/2022 Breadnet Web UI (This controls my desk lights):http://75.38.106.136:1880/ui Summary: More pretty pictures. Fixed up Breadnet and got the core functionality out of it. Struggled with some data type conversions in the programming for the way the ESP32 handles MQTT payloads. Spent a lot of time tweaking things in VSCode until it worked exactly
4/25/2022 – 5/8/2022 Noise Toaster Demo Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/SvXzWK2Lwkw?feature=share Summary: Lots of pretty pictures. Last time it was mostly text and a few pictures. This time it’s the opposite. Very productive two weeks. Learned about OOP. Then I repaired the 3D Printer from its continuously broken state long enough to produce some new best prints. Then I used it
4/11/2022 – 4/24/2022 Summary: This round was kind of open-ended. Goal was to finish soldering together all the final switches and knobs for the Synth and get a more reasonable speaker for it. It works great now and isn’t painfully loud. Waiting to demo it until I get the case and front panel set up.
3/28/2022 – 4/10/2022 Mega Lights 2 Finished: https://youtu.be/PCQ9rvlqjPA Summary: Objective this round was to build a prototype lightsbox, design the housing for the final lightsbox, solder together one of the Synth PCBs and make sure it works, and then work on the housing and front panel for the synth. A couple things pushed me off course. First,