Category: Electronics

  • Car Pi (hardware)

    To keep the post (reasonably) short I’ll break it into 2 pieces, mostly hardware related and mostly software related, and apologies for lack of additional pictures, will add them when I pull the unit out to work on it again (probably this weekend) The idea of having a touch screen in your car has always…

  • Dual relay control over WiFi for $6 ?

    I’m a great fan of the ESP8266 boards, having several running with various sensors. I also enjoy the idea of home automation but have never liked the idea of paying so much for the off the shelf hardware. That all changes when I found this: Wifi IoT Relay Board Based on ESP8266 You can read…

  • Pi in a box

    I’ve had this long running obsession to create a neat enclosure for the Raspberry Pi’s I have, mainly because they lie around all over the place. My first attempt involved using an old drive case (with built in fan) that ended up looking something like this (open): Which worked pretty well, but then I then…