MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIAL To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1 BUILD AN MQTT BASED RGB LED PANEL! // PROJECT Connecting up the panel. Next you'll need to connect up the matrix hat to the provided cable and then to the panel. Next connect the power cable to the panel. and then the other end to the screw terminals of the Pi hat. Make sure you have the correct orientation, with the HOW TO MAKE A BLUETOOTH DOORBELL AND PHONE APP // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

ORANGE PI RK3399: HDMI RECORDING ON A BUDGET // REVIEW Installing Linux. Installing Linux is easy enough. It's identical to all the other RK3399 based SBCs around. Download the Linux upgrade tool and the Orange Pi Debian image. If you get errors like this, then you'll need to install the 32bit library versions on your 64bit O/S. That's all par for the course. BUILDING AN IMSAI 8080 REPLICA The IMSAI8080 was a pretty special machine, mainly because it was considered the very first “clone” computer, being sold in kit form

in the mid 70s.

SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIAL To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1 BUILD AN MQTT BASED RGB LED PANEL! // PROJECT Connecting up the panel. Next you'll need to connect up the matrix hat to the provided cable and then to the panel. Next connect the power cable to the panel. and then the other end to the screw terminals of the Pi hat. Make sure you have the correct orientation, with the HOW TO MAKE A BLUETOOTH DOORBELL AND PHONE APP // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

ORANGE PI RK3399: HDMI RECORDING ON A BUDGET // REVIEW Installing Linux. Installing Linux is easy enough. It's identical to all the other RK3399 based SBCs around. Download the Linux upgrade tool and the Orange Pi Debian image. If you get errors like this, then you'll need to install the 32bit library versions on your 64bit O/S. That's all par for the course. BUILDING AN IMSAI 8080 REPLICA The IMSAI8080 was a pretty special machine, mainly because it was considered the very first “clone” computer, being sold in kit form

in the mid 70s.

SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

// TUTORIALS

A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave.

// ALL MAKER NEWS

Weekly Roundup #49 - New Maker Products // News. The last Weekly Roundup of the year and that means it's Christmas time. If you live up top, then Christmas is all about snow falling, wood fires and generally trying to get warm. But I'm from down-under, where Christmas time is all about 50 degree heat waves, BBQs and trying to stay cool. ABOUT - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. Making Stuff With Tech: What will you make? I fall, I rise, I make mistakes, I live, I learn. I Make. I like making things. The stuff I make generally solves a problem or meets a need. PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W ANNOUNCING THE MMBOARD! A MICKMAKE SBC WITH ALL THE Currently I've designed a 1050TI graphics board with HDMI out supporting 8K @ 60Hz. Later I'll be adding in Thunderbolt, SATA, USB4.0 when it becomes available and various WiFi and Bluetooth modules. Then we have GbE. A couple of buttons to mash.

WEEKLY ROUNDUP #18

The regular Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products returns for the year with a whole bunch of wireless modules, power control, robotic arms and some cool video processing boards. All coming from a freshly

rebuilt new studio.

NANO PI M4: CAN AN SBC GET ANY BETTER? Turns out there is an executable called rtcwake, which allows you to both set a wake up time and push the SoC into several sleep modes. The NanoPi M4 supports only a handful of modes. Freeze mode freezes all processes, suspends devices allowing a faster wake from sleep, but still consumes a fair amount of juice. ROCK64: CHEAP AND ROCK SOLID // REVIEW 25Q127CSIG - 128Mb SPI flash. K4E8E324EB-EGCF - On this board, at least, 1G LPDDR3 RAM. You can also have 2G or 4G LPDDR3 RAM. RK3288 - And lastly the RK3328, which is a 64 bit quad core SoC with frequency scaling up to 1.3GHz. On the flip side it's really quite boring with

only an SD slot.

MULTIPLEXING: DOING MORE WITH LESS. // TECHNOLOGY Multiplexing, or MUXing, is a way of reducing the number of expensive wires, cables or RF transmitters by combining several signals over one medium. It was originally used in telegraphy in the 1870s to allow more than one person to communicate at a time, and was developed by George Squier in 1910 for the telephone carrier network. RUNNING GOLANG ON AN STM32 MCU. A QUICK TUTORIAL Demo code. Next fetch the demo archive from GitHub.You should end up with a bunch of files like this.-rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 197 Sep 15 20:26 burn.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 120 Sep 15 20:16 debug-oocd.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 mick shadow 500 Sep 16 13:21 main.go -rw-r--r-- 1 mick shadow 15816 Jan 22 2016 maple_boot.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 166 Sep 16 12:12 revert-maple-bootloader.sh MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIAL To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1 BUILD AN MQTT BASED RGB LED PANEL! // PROJECT Connecting up the panel. Next you'll need to connect up the matrix hat to the provided cable and then to the panel. Next connect the power cable to the panel. and then the other end to the screw terminals of the Pi hat. Make sure you have the correct orientation, with the HOW TO MAKE A BLUETOOTH DOORBELL AND PHONE APP // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

ORANGE PI RK3399: HDMI RECORDING ON A BUDGET // REVIEW Installing Linux. Installing Linux is easy enough. It's identical to all the other RK3399 based SBCs around. Download the Linux upgrade tool and the Orange Pi Debian image. If you get errors like this, then you'll need to install the 32bit library versions on your 64bit O/S. That's all par for the course. BUILDING AN IMSAI 8080 REPLICA The IMSAI8080 was a pretty special machine, mainly because it was considered the very first “clone” computer, being sold in kit form

in the mid 70s.

SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIAL To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1 BUILD AN MQTT BASED RGB LED PANEL! // PROJECT Connecting up the panel. Next you'll need to connect up the matrix hat to the provided cable and then to the panel. Next connect the power cable to the panel. and then the other end to the screw terminals of the Pi hat. Make sure you have the correct orientation, with the HOW TO MAKE A BLUETOOTH DOORBELL AND PHONE APP // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

ORANGE PI RK3399: HDMI RECORDING ON A BUDGET // REVIEW Installing Linux. Installing Linux is easy enough. It's identical to all the other RK3399 based SBCs around. Download the Linux upgrade tool and the Orange Pi Debian image. If you get errors like this, then you'll need to install the 32bit library versions on your 64bit O/S. That's all par for the course. BUILDING AN IMSAI 8080 REPLICA The IMSAI8080 was a pretty special machine, mainly because it was considered the very first “clone” computer, being sold in kit form

in the mid 70s.

SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

// TUTORIALS

A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave.

// ALL MAKER NEWS

Weekly Roundup #49 - New Maker Products // News. The last Weekly Roundup of the year and that means it's Christmas time. If you live up top, then Christmas is all about snow falling, wood fires and generally trying to get warm. But I'm from down-under, where Christmas time is all about 50 degree heat waves, BBQs and trying to stay cool. ABOUT - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. Making Stuff With Tech: What will you make? I fall, I rise, I make mistakes, I live, I learn. I Make. I like making things. The stuff I make generally solves a problem or meets a need. PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W ANNOUNCING THE MMBOARD! A MICKMAKE SBC WITH ALL THE Currently I've designed a 1050TI graphics board with HDMI out supporting 8K @ 60Hz. Later I'll be adding in Thunderbolt, SATA, USB4.0 when it becomes available and various WiFi and Bluetooth modules. Then we have GbE. A couple of buttons to mash.

WEEKLY ROUNDUP #18

The regular Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products returns for the year with a whole bunch of wireless modules, power control, robotic arms and some cool video processing boards. All coming from a freshly

rebuilt new studio.

NANO PI M4: CAN AN SBC GET ANY BETTER? Turns out there is an executable called rtcwake, which allows you to both set a wake up time and push the SoC into several sleep modes. The NanoPi M4 supports only a handful of modes. Freeze mode freezes all processes, suspends devices allowing a faster wake from sleep, but still consumes a fair amount of juice. ROCK64: CHEAP AND ROCK SOLID // REVIEW 25Q127CSIG - 128Mb SPI flash. K4E8E324EB-EGCF - On this board, at least, 1G LPDDR3 RAM. You can also have 2G or 4G LPDDR3 RAM. RK3288 - And lastly the RK3328, which is a 64 bit quad core SoC with frequency scaling up to 1.3GHz. On the flip side it's really quite boring with

only an SD slot.

MULTIPLEXING: DOING MORE WITH LESS. // TECHNOLOGY Multiplexing, or MUXing, is a way of reducing the number of expensive wires, cables or RF transmitters by combining several signals over one medium. It was originally used in telegraphy in the 1870s to allow more than one person to communicate at a time, and was developed by George Squier in 1910 for the telephone carrier network. RUNNING GOLANG ON AN STM32 MCU. A QUICK TUTORIAL Demo code. Next fetch the demo archive from GitHub.You should end up with a bunch of files like this.-rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 197 Sep 15 20:26 burn.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 120 Sep 15 20:16 debug-oocd.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 mick shadow 500 Sep 16 13:21 main.go -rw-r--r-- 1 mick shadow 15816 Jan 22 2016 maple_boot.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 166 Sep 16 12:12 revert-maple-bootloader.sh MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

HOW TO MAKE A BLUETOOTH DOORBELL AND PHONE APP // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

ORANGE PI RK3399: HDMI RECORDING ON A BUDGET // REVIEW Installing Linux. Installing Linux is easy enough. It's identical to all the other RK3399 based SBCs around. Download the Linux upgrade tool and the Orange Pi Debian image. If you get errors like this, then you'll need to install the 32bit library versions on your 64bit O/S. That's all par for the course. PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIAL To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1 SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

BUILDING AN IMSAI 8080 REPLICA The IMSAI8080 was a pretty special machine, mainly because it was considered the very first “clone” computer, being sold in kit form

in the mid 70s.

MULTIPLEXING: DOING MORE WITH LESS. // TECHNOLOGY Multiplexing, or MUXing, is a way of reducing the number of expensive wires, cables or RF transmitters by combining several signals over one medium. It was originally used in telegraphy in the 1870s to allow more than one person to communicate at a time, and was developed by George Squier in 1910 for the telephone carrier network. MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

HOW TO MAKE A BLUETOOTH DOORBELL AND PHONE APP // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

ORANGE PI RK3399: HDMI RECORDING ON A BUDGET // REVIEW Installing Linux. Installing Linux is easy enough. It's identical to all the other RK3399 based SBCs around. Download the Linux upgrade tool and the Orange Pi Debian image. If you get errors like this, then you'll need to install the 32bit library versions on your 64bit O/S. That's all par for the course. PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIAL To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1 SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON

MICKMAKE.COM

BUILDING AN IMSAI 8080 REPLICA The IMSAI8080 was a pretty special machine, mainly because it was considered the very first “clone” computer, being sold in kit form

in the mid 70s.

MULTIPLEXING: DOING MORE WITH LESS. // TECHNOLOGY Multiplexing, or MUXing, is a way of reducing the number of expensive wires, cables or RF transmitters by combining several signals over one medium. It was originally used in telegraphy in the 1870s to allow more than one person to communicate at a time, and was developed by George Squier in 1910 for the telephone carrier network.

// PROJECTS

The WS2812 RGB LED is a pretty popular device that's been around for a long time. In this video I'll cover what they are, how to drive them from 3.3v logic and even throw in a simple GoLang library to control them from a Raspberry Pi which will display a count of wiffies! PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W ACCELEROMETER PHYSICS: HOW DOES IT WORK? // TECHNOLOGY The basic concept of an accelerometer is a small mass, or “proof mass”, or “seismic mass” with a way of measuring how that mass moves. To make it easier to understand, I made a model showing this. Watch the YouTube video of the IMU5000 in slow motion action. There are several basic aspects to note in this slow mo video. WHAT IS LORA? // TECHNOLOGY Whereas PSK changes the phase of the amplitude indicating either a 1, or 0. You can have many combinations of these three to produce other modulation techniques such as QPSK, MSK, DSSS and FHSS, but LoRa is a proprietary modulation technique that uses something similar to the FSK based CSS, or Chirp Spread Spectrum.

WEEKLY ROUNDUP #18

The regular Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products returns for the year with a whole bunch of wireless modules, power control, robotic arms and some cool video processing boards. All coming from a freshly

rebuilt new studio.

BUILD AN MQTT BASED RGB LED PANEL! // PROJECT Connecting up the panel. Next you'll need to connect up the matrix hat to the provided cable and then to the panel. Next connect the power cable to the panel. and then the other end to the screw terminals of the Pi hat. Make sure you have the correct orientation, with the BUILD A TALKING ALARM CLOCK SYNCED TO GOOGLE CALENDARS Alarm Clock 50. Next on to the Google calendar side. First you'll need to login to Google Drive. Click on New, then “Connect more apps”, search for “scripts”, and connect that to your Google Drive account. Then click on “New” again, then “Google Apps Script”.

This will open up a

UP BOARD: THE RASPBERRY PI KILLER? // REVIEW The Up comes in three different flavours with 1G, 2G and 4G RAM and a range of eMMC storage options. From the last time I checked the Up store.They only had two models with 2G RAM and either 16G or 32G eMMC

storage.

ROCK64: CHEAP AND ROCK SOLID // REVIEW 25Q127CSIG - 128Mb SPI flash. K4E8E324EB-EGCF - On this board, at least, 1G LPDDR3 RAM. You can also have 2G or 4G LPDDR3 RAM. RK3288 - And lastly the RK3328, which is a 64 bit quad core SoC with frequency scaling up to 1.3GHz. On the flip side it's really quite boring with

only an SD slot.

RUNNING GOLANG ON AN STM32 MCU. A QUICK TUTORIAL Demo code. Next fetch the demo archive from GitHub.You should end up with a bunch of files like this.-rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 197 Sep 15 20:26 burn.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 120 Sep 15 20:16 debug-oocd.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 mick shadow 500 Sep 16 13:21 main.go -rw-r--r-- 1 mick shadow 15816 Jan 22 2016 maple_boot.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 mick shadow 166 Sep 16 12:12 revert-maple-bootloader.sh MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave.

// PROJECTS

The WS2812 RGB LED is a pretty popular device that's been around for a long time. In this video I'll cover what they are, how to drive them from 3.3v logic and even throw in a simple GoLang library to control them from a Raspberry Pi which will display a count of wiffies! BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

CW2013CASD - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIALATMEL SAM BAATMEL SAM D21ATMEL SAM ICEATMEL ARMATMEL MCUATMEL PROCESSOR To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1

WEEKLY ROUNDUP #18

The regular Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products returns for the year with a whole bunch of wireless modules, power control, robotic arms and some cool video processing boards. All coming from a freshly

rebuilt new studio.

ROCK64: CHEAP AND ROCK SOLID // REVIEW SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON MICKMAKE.COMLORA RADIO RANGELORA RANGELORA SIGNALLORA TECHNOLOGY WIKIPEDIALORA WIRELESS RANGEWHAT IS LORA MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE.PROJECTSPRODUCTSHIRE-MICKALL NEWSR.O.M.PCOMPETITIONS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave.

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The WS2812 RGB LED is a pretty popular device that's been around for a long time. In this video I'll cover what they are, how to drive them from 3.3v logic and even throw in a simple GoLang library to control them from a Raspberry Pi which will display a count of wiffies! BUILD A PI ZERO W POCKET PROJECTOR! // PROJECT PIPROJECTOR 1.X SERIES DOCUMENTATION The DLP2000 is a relatively cheap DMD, (Digital Mirror Device). It supports a resolution of 854 x 480. Not huge, but TI are selling their “evaluation boards”, (the DLP2000EVM), for around US$99 which is pretty cheap for a projector.However, these evaluation boards are only designed for the BeagleBone.. So this is a simple adapter board that allows you to use an ordinary Raspberry Pi Zero W MQTT MOSQUITTO ON A PI ZERO W IN UNDER 5 MINUTES Updating Raspbian. If you followed my previous article on installing Raspbian without a keyboard or screen, then the next step is to make sure you update your Debian package lists and upgrade, this will ensure you have the latest of everything.. apt-get update apt-get upgrade If you haven't done this before, it may take a while to

complete.

CW2013CASD - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave. PROGRAM AN ATMEL SAM WITHOUT AN IDE. // TUTORIALATMEL SAM BAATMEL SAM D21ATMEL SAM ICEATMEL ARMATMEL MCUATMEL PROCESSOR To upgrade, I could use a Debian feature called “apt pinning” to select the more recent version, but sometimes it's easier just to download the deb files and install manually. There was only one upgraded dependency that I needed to download which was libjim.So I just installed that along with the updated version of OpenOCD.. sudo dpkg -i libjim0.77_0.77-2_amd64.deb openocd_0.10.0-1+b1

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The regular Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products returns for the year with a whole bunch of wireless modules, power control, robotic arms and some cool video processing boards. All coming from a freshly

rebuilt new studio.

ROCK64: CHEAP AND ROCK SOLID // REVIEW SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECTSEE MORE ON MICKMAKE.COMLORA RADIO RANGELORA RANGELORA SIGNALLORA TECHNOLOGY WIKIPEDIALORA WIRELESS RANGEWHAT IS LORA // MICKMAKE PRODUCTS A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave.

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A couple of mates I've picked up along the way. Check them out! Kean Electronics - IT and electronics consulting who owns an Aladdins Cave of fantastic stuff.; Mike Schinkel - Mike is a dynamite on WordPress. If you need his skills, check him out. Peter Scargill - Peter has a great electronics blog, where he gets stuck into cool stuff.; Dave Jones - Everyone knows Dave.

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The WS2812 RGB LED is a pretty popular device that's been around for a long time. In this video I'll cover what they are, how to drive them from 3.3v logic and even throw in a simple GoLang library to control them from a Raspberry Pi which will display a count of wiffies! ABOUT - MICKMAKE - LIVE. LEARN. MAKE. Making Stuff With Tech: What will you make? I fall, I rise, I make mistakes, I live, I learn. I Make. I like making things. The stuff I make generally solves a problem or meets a need. WHAT IS MQTT? // TECHNOLOGY MQTT was created in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark and Arlen Nipper out of a need to send sensor data from oil pipes in the desert over satellite links. Andy had to solve the problem of communicating with low power, low CPU, low memory sensors instantaneously over unreliable, low bandwidth wireless and satellite networks. ROCK64: CHEAP AND ROCK SOLID // REVIEW 25Q127CSIG - 128Mb SPI flash. K4E8E324EB-EGCF - On this board, at least, 1G LPDDR3 RAM. You can also have 2G or 4G LPDDR3 RAM. RK3288 - And lastly the RK3328, which is a 64 bit quad core SoC with frequency scaling up to 1.3GHz. On the flip side it's really quite boring with

only an SD slot.

BUILD A TALKING ALARM CLOCK SYNCED TO GOOGLE CALENDARS Alarm Clock 50. Next on to the Google calendar side. First you'll need to login to Google Drive. Click on New, then “Connect more apps”, search for “scripts”, and connect that to your Google Drive account. Then click on “New” again, then “Google Apps Script”.

This will open up a

SMS OVER LORA: LONG DISTANCE SMS WITHOUT 4G // PROJECT LoRa. LoRa is a great technology allowing you to send messages over very long distances. We've seen several attempts reaching over 200kms, ( Andreas Spiess ), and even 700kms using low altitude balloons. However, around the suburbs, with a decent antenna, you should be able to reach 20kms comfortably. MULTIPLEXING: DOING MORE WITH LESS. // TECHNOLOGY Multiplexing, or MUXing, is a way of reducing the number of expensive wires, cables or RF transmitters by combining several signals over one medium. It was originally used in telegraphy in the 1870s to allow more than one person to communicate at a time, and was developed by George Squier in 1910 for the telephone carrier network. BUILDING AN IMSAI 8080 REPLICA The IMSAI8080 was a pretty special machine, mainly because it was considered the very first “clone” computer, being sold in kit form

in the mid 70s.

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So much has happened recently that the Roundup of New Maker Products is split into two. This is all the rest of the stuff. So, go and hide your wallets! Continue reading Weekly Roundup #64 – New Maker Products→Read more. So much has happened recently that the Roundup of New Maker Products is split into two. This is all the Crowd Funding and Tindie stuff. So, go and hide your wallets! Continue reading Weekly Roundup #63 – New Maker Products→Read more. This first Weeky Roundup of the year and we're already seeing lots of new goodies from SBCs, to WiFi modules, but really a tonne of new SBCs. Continue reading Weekly Roundup #62: New Maker Products //

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There's been a lot of speculation from the SBC community about what the Raspberry Pi 4 will look like and the Raspberry Pi Foundation has really kept the lid on it. However, I was recently given a pretty honorable opportunity. To road-test a prototype of the Raspberry Pi 4.

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The NanoPi NEO4 is probably the smallest RK3399 based SBC on the market currently. Does it have enough to take on the competition? Find out in this video. Continue reading NanoPi NEO4: Smallest RK3399 SBC. What is real, NEO? // Review→Read more. The Orange Pi RK3399 is yet another board to join the ranks of RockChip RK3399 based SBCs. In true Orange Pi fashion, they give you everything, but is this SBC worth it? Continue reading Orange Pi RK3399: HDMI recording on a budget // Review→Read more. More reviews here…

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Ever wanted a really small and cheap projector that can fit in your pocket? Here's a quick project to make a Raspberry Pi Zero W based pocket projector. Continue reading Build a Pi Zero W pocket projector! // Project→Read more. This quick project shows you how to build an MQTT controlled RGB LED matrix panel in under 30 minutes, but I reckon it should take you a lot less. Continue reading Build an MQTT based RGB LED panel! // Project→Read more. Do you want to be able to send an SMS over 20kms without using a mobile phone network? Here's one small project you can knock up in less than a day allowing you to send an SMS over LoRa. Continue reading SMS over LoRa: Long distance SMS without 4G //Read more. More projects here…

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If you're a fan of GoLang then your options are limited in the embedded world. So, here's a couple of options for you with a working bare metal example for an STM32 MCU written entirely in Go. Continue reading Running GoLang on an STM32 MCU. A quick tutorial.→Read more. This is the second part of my video on building a simple PCB using EasyEDA. This time we'll be taking a look at how to use a solder stencil, placing SMD components, soldering using kitchen equipment and how to fix up your mistakes. Continue reading Make a PCB from

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A follow-up to my video tutorial: "Program an Atmel SAM without an IDE". I've created a Docker container on GitHub with a complete ASF build chain. Ready to go. Go for it! Continue reading Atmel Software Framework and build chain in a Docker container→Read more. More tutorials here…

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I'm still in reno mode, so only a couple of quick things in this mailbag. The new EEVBlog 121GW multimeter, cheap spycam hacking, the failed WiFi temperature shower head and Unexpected Maker's WS2812 7 segment display. Continue reading MickMake Mail #32: EEVBlog 121GW, spycam hacking and other bits.→Read more. This week's mailbag I'm looking at the Pirl charger, motorized sliders and 6,720 LEDs from a dumpster dive. Nice. Continue reading MickMake Mail #31: Pirl charger, LEDs & motor faders // News→Read more. A bit of a different mailbag this week. Containing a lot of bits and pieces for upcoming projects and other odds and ends. Continue reading MickMake Mail #30: Gakken, JLCPCB, wicking and skulls // News→Read

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