Magnetic Encoder Tests
I recently purchased some magnetic encoders to use in an upcoming project and hooked them up to a Wemos D1 Mini to try and do some basic testing. The specific […]
Christmas Meetup – Sunday 15th December
Welcome to our Christmas social Meetup. Put the date in your diary. To sign up visit the event page HERE. Projects we have done or are working on: Giant RGB […]
Upgrading to a Pi 4 with SSD
Mike has decided to upgrade his InfluxDb and Grafana server from the Pi 3B+ to a new Pi 4 with 4Gb of RAM. To speed things up even further, he […]
ESP8266 Sensor Node
Mike has recently been adding some more sensors to his sensor network around the house. To add to the Weather Station sensors that are out in the garden, plus the […]
Making an Arduino based Simon Game
So we decided at |Medway Makers to do a little collaborative project and to do a workshop on building and coding a ‘Simon’ game. This was mainly born out of […]
Meetup and Neopixel Workshop – Sunday 28th July
Our next meetup is Sunday 28th July. I shall be running a small workshop on how to use Neopixels and how to write code to control them using the Arduino […]
Beautiful Custom Wooden Knife Handle Build
In a departure from our usual electronics based builds, Tom Sparrow has been experimenting with making some beautiful wooden handles for gardening knives. Tom says….. I started by drawing some […]
Giant RGB LED Display + ESP8266
I’ve been working on a giant RGB LED Display recently. The video above shows you some test animations running through the display. Currently the display is 25 x 17 in […]
Environmental Monitoring Station + ESP32 + Raspberry Pi + InfluxDB + Grafana
So, over the last few months I have been curious as to the levels of pollution during my commute to work. I have to drive from the countryside of Kent […]
Next Tech Meetup – Sunday 16th June
Due to holidays there is a little longer wait till the next meetup which will be on Sunday 16th June. Our last meetup was well attended and we got up […]