Makers on Mars
I recently stumbled across this series on SpaceX. It dives deep into what is up with that kooky program and why it's so important for humans to live and establish civilization on Mars.
Nancy Yi Liang
I transform code into physical objects | New Initiatives at Amazon | Co Founder at Mixee Labs
Hello World: Design PCBs with Fritzing
This post is part of the Hello World Projects. The simple breadboard with a messy, beautiful rainbow of wires sticking this way and that. Easy enough! But now, how does one tidy things
Hello World Projects, an Intro
The idea behind Hello World Projects is to create simple tutorials that does one simple thing. Usually it involves turning on an LED or displaying "Hello World." These are simple building
Milling PCBs
Well, the nice folks at SoDo MakerSpace got me started on the CNC Mill and Laser Cutter. I used the smaller mill, a Shapeoko 2, to mill some PCBs. And by "some,
Dogfood
Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own product to validate the quality and capabilities of the
Ghost Hack
One of the good things about markdown is it lets you interject HTML in the middle. So far example, <div class="red">I'm red</div> **I'm bold*
Wifi Connected LED using Guide.js
I wasn't kidding when I said I'd use Guide.js, my new framework for writing guides and tutorials. Here's a rewrite of my ESP8266 to LED tutorial. I think it's much neater than
My Scrappy Guide.js
Project Github Link: https://github.com/neuralfirings/guide Over the past few posts, I've written some guides and tutorials on using the ESP8266 chip. People who read it seems to like I would
PCBs Misbehaving
I got my custom PCBs from iTEAD last week. So exciting, right? I plugged everything in and.... WARHN warhn (failure horn 📢). Problem So much trouble trying to figure out what's the issue. The
Wifi Controlled Motors using ESP8266 and ATtiny85
Picking up where we left off, I'm still on my way to create the cheap wifi connected, internet controlled motor. I think I found my perfect combination of awesome. Click on the diagram
Internet Controlled LED using ESP8266
In my previous post, I covered how to upload sketches using NodeMCU, which is firmware written in Lua. I ran into a few problems: Uploading big files were prone to error, and it
ESP8266 meets NodeMCU
Yesterday, I made great progress on playing around with the ESP8266, the $2 Wifi Module[1]. I will continue to document my progress on this blog. First, I just want a place to