Obtuse, Self referential nonsense, since 2015
I’ve just finished work on the prototype of the moisture sensor. As I type, it’s sitting, powered by batteries, with it’s probes in a hanging basket, sending data to my server in the cloud. Inside the large tuppaware box there is a 4xAA battery box, from a defunct string of Ikea Christmas lights. This powers […]
Every summer, I go away on holiday. If it’s a damp, wet week, I’m sad, but I come home happy because I know my plants will have survived. If its a glorious hot summer break, I’m happy, but I come home to devastation in the garden with all the pots and hanging baskets reduced to […]
I recently powered up one of my ESP8266 ESP-01 modules to start experimenting with the ArduinoIDE build for it. I knew that it sucks juice big time, in excess of 250mA for some operations. I’d also been warned that the cheapo FTDI adaptors from ebay can struggle to provide enough power to satisfy it. I […]