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," I mean "one." Well, the first one broke into a hot mess. So I…
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 product. — Wikipedia When I design products, I make an effort to regularly use the products I make.…
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** Gives you something like: I'm red **I'm bold** The Problem Here's the problem though, when you are…
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 the previous version. Ingredients ESP8266-01 Wifi Module White LED FTDI Cable Lipo 3.7V Battery Workflow PHP…
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 like to continue publishing more of these as I venture into different hardware & software projects. Some…
