Dear friends welcome to another Instructable! Today we are going to learn how to get the data that this Xiaomi Temperature and Humidity monitor transmits using the Bluetooth functionality of the ESP32 board. As you can see, I am using an ESP32 board and a 2.8” color TFT display. On the display, we display the temperature and […]
ESP32 Xiaomi Hack – Get Data Wirelessly Continue Reading
Don’t know about you, but over the last year or so, we have gone from spending ten or twelve hours a day at this computer to upwards of sixteen or eighteen. Fortunately there’s a window behind the monitor for taking those 20/20/20 breaks that are supposed to prevent eye strain, but it’s so hard to
EYESIGHT GUARDIAN POLICES YOUR POOR PUPILS Continue Reading
The Joker is a popular character in the Batman franchise, and at times uses poisonous gases as part of his criminal repertoire. That inspired this fun project by [kutluhan_aktar], which aims to monitor the level of harmful gases in the air. The project doesn’t use just one gas sensor, but several! It packs the MQ-2, MQ-3, MQ-4, MQ-6,
JOKER MONITOR KEEPS AN EYE ON HAZARDOUS GAS LEVELS Continue Reading
[Applied Procrastination] aka [Simen E. Sørensen] has a simple project to help those of us that struggle with early-morning zombification. By leveraging the backlight optics from a broken LCD monitor, it is possible to create an excellent diffused light source to simulate daylight, before your chosen waking time. The theory is that it is less shocking
BANISH EARLY MORNING ZOMBIFICATION WITH THE ZOM-B-GONE! Continue Reading
Arduinos are incredibly useful tools for all sorts of projects. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, having easy, fast, cheap, and reliable access to health information is more important than ever. While an Arduino might not be the tool of choice for proper medical applications, we can draw inspiration from medical devices to create fun and
Pulse Oximeter and Heart Rate Monitor Continue Reading
Something like 99% of the people on the road at any given moment will consider themselves an above-average driver, something that’s as statistically impossible as it is easily disproven by casual observation. Drivers make all kinds of mistakes, but perhaps none as annoying and avoidable as failure to use their turn signal. This turn signal
ANNOY YOURSELF INTO BETTER DRIVING WITH THIS TURN SIGNAL MONITOR Continue Reading
One of the joys of being a Maker and Hacker is solving problems and filling needs. When you can do both, well, that’s something special. [rodrigo.mejiasz]’s project surely fits into that special category of solving a problem and filling a dire need with his Bedridden Patient Monitor. While [Rodrigo]’s project page does not specify his motivation
MONITOR FOR BEDRIDDEN PATIENTS AIMS TO IMPROVE CARE Continue Reading
This utility GUI application is a tool for debugging programs using a remote MQTT server. It can show messages on multiple topics and publish text-based messages on a single topic. The application is provided all in one file and can be be directly downloaded from qt_mqtt_monitor.py. The following sections have both documentation and the full code.
Arduino MQTT Monitor (PyQt5) Continue Reading
Advantech, a leading embedded computing solution provider, announced the release of its latest new 1U THIN barebone system with 8th Gen. Intel® Core™ processors up to 65W TDP – EPC-T2286 This system supports Intel® 8th generation Core™ i7/i5/i3 processors which bring enhanced performance over previous generations with up to six CPU cores and Intel’s 9th generation
ADVANTECH UNVEILS 1U DESKTOP SYSTEM EPC-T2286 Continue Reading
Either for benchmarking purposes or as external telemetry to help you stay within the acceptable range for your computer power, super users usually have the desire to have a way of knowing what the performance numbers of your PC are. For today’s tutorial, we will build a PC Hardware monitor which is capable of obtaining
PC HARDWARE MONITOR WITH NOKIA 5110 DISPLAY AND ARDUINO Continue Reading
