Engineering Posts

12 Mar

Enginursday: The Decade of Pi

It hasn't been quite a decade since the release of the Raspberry Pi platform, but it was definitely the hardware project that dominated the 2010s for us. For today's post I'd love the reminisce and review the big story.

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5 Mar

Enginursday: Keycode Security Starter, Part 2

This is the second part depicting the building of a keycode-based anti-theft system for a car.

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27 Feb

Enginursday: Fixing the ESP32 Thing Plus

In this Enginursday post, we talk about a fixing a problem the ESP32 Thing Plus had.

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20 Feb

Enginursday: Non-Addressable RGB LEDs

Add color to your projects with analog LED strips!

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13 Feb

Enginursday: A New Sensory Experience with the Cthulhu Shield

Using Sapien LLC's Arduino Shield and Electrode array we can expand our human senses.

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6 Feb

Enginursday: Light Painting with EL Wire and an LED

Long exposure experiments with dancers, EL Wire suits, an LED and DSLR camera.

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30 Jan

Enginursday: Light Suit Update

I have finally gotten the hardware in (mostly) working order for my wacky fiber optic light suit. Let's check out what I've done!

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16 Jan

Enginursday: Secure DIY Garage Door Opener

Using cryptographic authentication, we created a super-secure remote control to open a garage!

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2 Jan

Enginursday: Exploring the Embedded Startup Process

Let's take a look at what makes 'main()' feel so cozy and welcoming - what has to happen to have variables initialized, objects constructed and stacks a-stackin?

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26 Dec

Enginursday: ESP32 Relay Web Server, Part One

This is the third post in my ongoing ESP32 Relay Web Server project.

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