TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank. My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the…
Many of us have made electric transport of some form, whether a Hacky Racer, and e-bike, a go-kart, or whatever. We have invariably bought a motor, or if we are really adventurous, repurposed a car…
The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the interest of many future roboticists.…
The second revision of the CH32V006 OpenServoCore dev board. Fixes the Rev A bugs, recovers real bidirectional current sensing on the OPA, adds a PWM servo header for system ID, and gets the project its first silkscreen branding.
Hey there - I'm way out of my depth on our AC unit and wanted to see if anyone here could help with some advice. We live in a 1400 sqft 1941 home and we recently had some issues with our AC so we got two AC repairmen to come out and see what the problem…
Ive gotten myself some nema 17‘s (stepperonline) An adruino UNO with a cnc shield v3.0 and 4 drv8825‘s (youmile) I have uploaded code from a YouTube tutorial onto the Uno, it’s supposed to turn the motor one revolution, wait short and then turn again and…