ESPHome Temperature and Humidity Sensor with Home Assistant

BME280 with ESP8266

I needed to add a simple temperature and humidify sensor to add to Home Assistant, both for my information and for various automations. At first, I went with the Aqara temperature and humidity sensor, but they were too unreliable with my setup. Even if I can get them to pair, they often will drop after … Read moreESPHome Temperature and Humidity Sensor with Home Assistant

Custom Arduino Uno shield for growing oyster mushrooms

I’m building an Arduino project to automate growing oyster mushroom in a box. I can’t vouch for the results of growing the mushrooms yet, but the electronics are now complete, so I wanted to do a little writeup on it while it was fresh into my mind. For this project I was aiming to use … Read moreCustom Arduino Uno shield for growing oyster mushrooms

My home automation build with Home Assistant

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A quick introduction to OpenSCAD for 3D printing

I hope that the products recommended here will help you build great projects. Just so you know, if you buy through the links on this page on Amazon or Banggood (among others), RobotsBench may get a small share of the sale (as an Amazon affilate, I earn from qualifying purchases). This helps to keep the … Read moreA quick introduction to OpenSCAD for 3D printing

HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor with Arduino

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“Creating Your Own Printed Circuit Board At Home” at WTM 2020

Temperature logger PCB

It’s been up for a while, but I gave a (virtual) talk at Woman Techmakers Montreal in April 2020 about creating your own circuit board. I wanted to show that creating your own circuit board is not that hard and expensive with KiCad and a good PCB fabrication house. It was not supposed to be … Read more“Creating Your Own Printed Circuit Board At Home” at WTM 2020

Building the Geekcreit® DIY L298N Autonomous Robot Car

I hope that the products recommended here will help you build great projects. Just so you know, if you buy through the links on this page on Amazon or Banggood (among others), RobotsBench may get a small share of the sale (as an Amazon affilate, I earn from qualifying purchases). This helps to keep the … Read moreBuilding the Geekcreit® DIY L298N Autonomous Robot Car

Arduino vs Raspberry Pi : Which one should you pick?

I hope that the products recommended here will help you build great projects. Just so you know, if you buy through the links on this page on Amazon or Banggood (among others), RobotsBench may get a small share of the sale (as an Amazon affilate, I earn from qualifying purchases). This helps to keep the … Read moreArduino vs Raspberry Pi : Which one should you pick?

Creating and Ordering a Circuit Board

Temperature logger PCB

I have plans for a small weather station that’s been lying on my hard drive for a while. The basic design includes ESP8266 modules that send data over to a Raspberry Pi base station that logs all that data and can create graphs. I’ve done a good deal of prototyping and breadboarding for the electronics, … Read moreCreating and Ordering a Circuit Board