Author: Derrick Robles
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Using a custom smart dial to control my lights
Using Home Assistant and the ESP-Home firmware, I was able to build a bedside table smart dial that controls the lights in my room in ways not possible with a normal light switch. The base electronics are relatively simple: A rotary encoder wired up to…
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Initial Research for a Two-wheeled Robot
My initial goal was to find some other examples of two-wheeled robots. Many of these robots are ‘self-balancing’ and have their center of gravity above the pivot point of the wheels. I have built a robot like this before and I was not really interested…
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HB2-0: Mechanical Design
The main mechanical components of HB2-0 were salvaged from an old power wheelchair. That includes two very heavy brushed DC motors. These motors were sized to carry an adult person so they were definitely overkill for this robot. A pair of rubber wheels, 260mm in…
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Multi-cam recording setup on a budget
I have gathered the materials and configured the software necessary to create a complete multi-camera recording and streaming setup. It *can* be more affordable than my setup but I’ll show you the tools I am currently using to record videos and broadcast livestreams. Compared to using a…
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DIY Tube Lights for $35
I was searching for different methods of LED strip diffusion with visual examples. I wanted to use addressable RGB LED strips but using the bare and blinding LEDs were not quite my style I found this video by Wittech which shows a unique and cheap way to accomplish…
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How I Turned My 3D Printer Into a 2D Plotter
While I am home for the holidays I decided to work on a project that was small in scale but fun nevertheless. I’m going to use my Ender 3 3D printer to make a 2D pen plotter. In the end I want to have my…
