This post is part of the Hello World Projects [https://blog.nyl.io/helloworld]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many ways to create custom PCBs (printed circuit boards). I like milling because the CNC mill
I recently stumbled across this series on SpaceX [http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html]. It dives deep into what is up with that kooky program and why it's so important
This post is part of the Hello World Projects [https://blog.nyl.io/helloworld]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The simple breadboard with a messy, beautiful rainbow of wires sticking this way and that. Easy enough! But
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
Well, the nice folks at SoDo MakerSpace [http://sodo.ms] got me started on the CNC Mill and Laser Cutter. I used the smaller mill, a Shapeoko 2, to mill some PCBs. And
> 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
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 wasn't kidding when I said I'd use Guide.js [https://github.com/neuralfirings/guide], my new framework for writing guides and tutorials. Here's a rewrite of
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 [https://blog.nyl.io/tag/esp8266/
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
Picking up where we left off [https://blog.nyl.io/esp8266-led-arduino/], I'm still on my way to create the cheap wifi connected, internet controlled motor. I think I found my perfect
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