I recently completed a LED conversion on a Dazor P-2134 fluorescent tube task lamp.
Dazor has been making variations of this lamp since 1938.
The newly converted lamp has adjustable brightness and color temperature and uses a 20kHz PWM frequency to avoid any image banding on digital camera image capture.
Home Assistant Dashboard on Polycom VVX
Showing sensor states on a VOIP desk phone idle screen
Building an ESPHome environmental multi-sensor
Envirosense ESP8266 take 2
Raspberry Pi Camera RTSP Streaming with multiple resolution feeds
Using GPU accelerated H.264 encoding
I was looking for a way to stream two H.264 video feeds from an old Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi Camera Module with the first feed being the highest resolution that I could achieve from the camera and the second being a lower resolution that would be more suitable for analysis. To monitor the Pi Camera and perform motion and AI object detection with a Frigate NVR system, I wanted the feeds served from an RTSP server.
[Read More]Hoverboard motor hall sensor replacement
I have a couple Hoverboard (self-balancing scooter) motors that I’m intending to use for a project with an oDrive motor controller.
One of the motors was causing an ERROR_ILLEGAL_HALL_STATE
on the oDrive and after swapping the motor channels and some troubleshooting with a multimeter I had determined that 1 of the 3 internal hall-effect sensors was not functioning as expected.
Digi-Key has a nice article on how these hall sensors function in BLDC (Brushless DC) motors.
Envirosense ESP8266 Prometheus Exporter
Exporting ambient motion, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure metrics with a WiFI IoT board
Over the last few years I’ve spent a considerable amount of time working with the Prometheus monitoring system and time series database in combination with the Grafana visualization platform.
I had been wanting to track the temperature and humidity of a few rooms and was looking for an excuse to run a Prometheus server at home.
I thought it would be neat to use a Wi-Fi microcontroller to collect this sensor data and expose it directly in the Prometheus simple text-based exposition format.
WebRTC controlled Telepresence Robot project
This is a short video overview of a WebRTC controlled Telepresence Robot that I built using inexpensive components.