For the vacation in Holland this year I got a new gadget. A Flow-Mow to create new time-lapse videos. Here are the resulting videos.

On two of the last bike trips I took my camera backpack instead of my camel back. So, here are some photos I took during my trip to the Großer Feldberg.

I wasn’t really happy with the light which comes with my 30 l aquarium. But I have a lot of white 3 W LED lying around. So we will build a new LED light for the aquarium. Bill of Materials 3x ...

Two days ago it finally happened. After months of research, I finally ordered my first 3D printer. It is a GRR Neo (German RepRap). The GRR Neo is a fully assembled 3D printer. I want the printer ...

To improve the efficiency of automatic garden watering systems, I tested some methods to measure the soil moisture. Mainly I tried resistive and capacitive methods. For connecting the sensors to a...

This season I will place most of my peppers in soil. But I will keep one plant in a hydroponic system for fun. So, I chose the “top drip bucket” as an easy variant for this plant. In a “top drip b...

Here is a new LUA script example for your ESP8266 running NodeMCU. The script creates a TCP server listening on port 80. Each time you receive data on the server, it toggles the LED connected to th...

In our last NodeMCU post, we covered the installation of NodeMCU on our ESP8266 board. Now we can start to load full LUA script files onto the ESP8266. I will show you how you can do this with a qu...

There is a new guide for flashing NodeMcu on ESP8266. See link A little instruction on how to flash NodeMCU on your ESP-01 module. Then you can run LUA code on your ESP8266. Hardware needed: ...