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WiFi Smart Power Strip Socket – Under My Control

By | October 12, 2018

I was looking for a remotely controlled power strip. Actually, I was originally thinking about wired/Ethernet connected ones as I had seen in some data center setups. But eventually, I found those very cheap WiFi-controlled strips at Amazon (Cheap is always relative and try to compare those to their wired counterparts). But those WiFi-connected strips… Read More »

HBRC Presentation on my RoboMagellan Efforts

By | February 5, 2017

For the January 2017 meeting of the Home Brew Robotics Club (HBRC), I did a little presentation about my robots for the RoboMagellan events @ RoboGames. I did compete in that event for the last two years, and I’m working on my robot for the 2017 competition coming up in Pleasanton, CA on Apr 21-23,… Read More »

Oracle Maker Faire – It was a fun event

By | December 10, 2016

I did not know how wide this would be publicized but since I made it into the official Oracle blog, I guess it’s OK;-) Yes, Oracle had a company based Mini Maker Faire;-) All the people I saw, had a blast. But unfortunately, I did not have time to take any photos. I was busy… Read More »

3D Printing with NinjaFlex

By | October 29, 2016

I found those nice little lighted costume horns @ the Adafruit tutorials. So I had to try to build my own pair;-) They were 3d-printed out of a nicely flexible filament called NinjaFlex. Playing with that opens a whole new area of potential uses. But first, the printer has to be able to handle it.… Read More »

Science Olympiad 2016 – Div C – RobotArm

By | July 22, 2016

OK, this took quite some time but some info to our entry for the RobotArm event for the Science Olympiad Division C. This robot is probably overkill for the event, but maybe other teams can find some interesting tidbits for the next iterations of the event. After our first attempt with the team of our… Read More »

Colorado Timing Console – Scoreboard Protocol

By | July 17, 2015

Our swim season is almost over, so here another post about my CTS console experiments. I tried to do two things for the scoreboard connection: Create a wireless link to the scoreboard. Understand the protocol enough to build my own example scoreboard. So far, I was only partially successful. I know the link is running… Read More »