馃 Blumentopf - Automated Plant Watering #1

This post misses a lot of technical details as I reconstruct the changes and implementations out of my memory and my image archive. The latest Blumentopf iteration will contain all technical details you need. Four years ago I started working on a never ending side project with which I wanted to automate the watering of some of my plants. I fiddled around with a few modules from Tinkerforge which I love for jumping into a project....

May 1, 2022 路 2 min 路 373 words 路 Robert

Sous Vide Steak 1.0

Recently we tried out sous vide cooking and needed quite some time to find well-sounding parameters in the internet or cookbooks. To preserve the tweaks we did to them I wanted to put them up here, also some of you might want to give it a try too. Baseline Parameters The following parameters can be used for a cold start and might need adjustments depending on your tools and taste....

October 18, 2021 路 1 min 路 206 words 路 Robert

Shenzhen I/O #3 - Diagnostic Pulse Generator

Another day another Shenzhen I/O puzzle. In order to test some of our new manufacturing equipment, we need a pulse generator with certain requirements (specifications). However, instead of buying one at the market price, I thought we could simply create our own. For this project you will need to make use of conditional execution. Please continue your study of the language reference. As a refresher, checkout the Language Reference Card in the first post....

March 18, 2021 路 1 min 路 140 words 路 Robert

Shenzhen I/O #2 - Control Signal Amplifier

Today we鈥檙e doing another Shenzhen I/O puzzle. As this is the second task, the puzzle is again quite simple. As a reminder, we do have the following command documentation: The task is to amplify a signal. As we can see from the verification tab the output has to be higher than the input - twice as high, to be precise. This seems fairly easy, we just need to multiply the input signal with 2 and output the result....

March 14, 2021 路 2 min 路 246 words 路 Robert

Printer of Catan #1

I recently stumbled over the Catan style boardgame 2.0 from Dakanzla and thought it would be nice to print my own version of it. Doing this I noticed how hard it was to collect all information, find the right models for the version I wanted and finally printing it. Therefore I am writing this post helping others to create their version of Catan. This is an ongoing series of posts during the building/printing of the game and is likely to change....

February 27, 2021 路 3 min 路 543 words 路 Robert