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An exploration of the DALI lighting protocol

How to stream RTMP cameras with OpenWRT and Docker

Digital upgrade of an E61 style espresso machine, with custom round LCD ‘analog’ displays and a Home-Assistant enabled ESP32 motherboard.

A compact ESP32 dev board equipped with Ethernet and PoE.

A low-cost DisplayPort switch for sharing a single monitor/keyboard/mouse between two PCs, using simple logic and a high-speed DP mux chip.

Datasheets2 is a simple datasheet/document/PDF organizer that allows you to quickly search your collection and open specific files

A while back I reverse-engineered the Outback MATE protocol and made a Python library for emulating a MATE, and set it up collecting data from the family Holiday House.

pyMATE is a python library that can be used to emulate an Outback MATE unit, and talk to any supported Outback device such as an MX charge controller, an FX inverter, a FlexNET DC monitor, or a hub with multiple devices attached to it.

I’ve always been interested in the idea of re-using old laptop LCDs, but it always seemed out of my reach until recently I had a huge urge to wire up a special sunlight-readable Portege R500 “transflective” LCD, and I discovered it isn’t that hard to do!

An intro to the FPD-Link display interface, commonly used in laptop and monitor LCD panels!

Viscons is a hand-crafted icon set for common filetypes used in development (eg.

Over the last year or so I have been working on this project; a custom-built smartwatch!

This project uses the Kinect face-tracking SDK to replace a user’s face with another, warping it to match the user.

An update to my OLED watch project

As part of a Summer Scholarship at the University of Canterbury, I developed a system for detecting fire hotspots using thermal imaging cameras and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS).

Here I show how I created bitmap fonts from true-type fonts, which can then be used in your own microcontroller projects.

After making a mistake in my last design, I took the opportunity to re-design the PCB and add some extra features.

How to add the latest PIC24 chips to the PicKit2, plus an advanced GUI for editing the device file

Experiments with Repaper’s e-Ink display, and driver code for the PIC32

As a side project, I decided it’d be neat to have a programmable wrist watch.

A simple program for quickly accessing datasheets

An overview of a collaborative 3D-printing project between me and a friend

In this tutorial, I will show you how to properly control an LEDs brightness using PWM.

A coffee table made from an earthquake-damaged LED backlit TV

In this, I show how you can add extra parts to the PicKit2 programmer, so you can program Microchip’s newer PIC24 devices.

A simple tutorial showing how to use Arduino and Python to make some sound-reactive LED lights!