Technik

Insolvenzbescheid - Panono — In the last 12 month I supported only a few tiny projects, spending less then 50€ all together on crowd funding platforms like kickstarter. Compared to the years before that’s a huge drop. After many unsuccessful campaigns and products that where not as good as in the pitch videos, I […]

6 Lessons I have learned from pledging money at kickstarter.com

20 Jul, 2017 in Allgemeines / Technik / Uncategorized / Welt draußen Tagged Amazon / crowd funding / indiegogo / kickstarter / lesson nach SES

plug safe - tool: designspark mechanical — At our home we share a laundry room with our neighbors. In the recent time I have found some evidence that my washing machine has been used by someone else. So I decided to make it a little harder to use my stuff without asking for it. I designed an […]

3D print: Secure your socket plug – with the socket ...

1 Mai, 2017 in Basteln / Gebasteltes / Technik / Uncategorized Tagged 3D print / plug / safe / socket / thingiverse / washing machine nach SES

pcb rendering — What is it good for: The IR CAM PI Shield adds infrared LEDs to the Raspberry Pi camera Module. So you can take photos or videos in the dark. Costs: 13$ for PCB manufacturing (for 10 PCBs) -> I have left a few boards, ask if you are interessted. 3$ […]

IR CAM PI Shield

14 Sep, 2016 in Basteln / Technik Tagged Camera / infrared / IR / PCB / Raspberry Pi / Shield nach SES

enclosure design — Introduction A few years ago I received a nice little LED lamp as a bonus in an online order. The lamp had one issue, the circuit was optimized for costs not for lifetime of the LEDs. Initial Ciruit After around of 10 hours of accumulated operation, the LEDs started to […]

How to fix a low cost LED lamp

23 Apr, 2016 in Basteln / Technik / Uncategorized Tagged 3D printer / Constant current source / DesignSpark Mechanical / LED Lamp / LM3410 nach SES

Today I received the brand new Raspberry Pi 2. Soon I will check out, how the extra performance can enhance my projects.

Raspberry Pi 2 just came in

5 Feb, 2015 in Technik Tagged Raspberry Pi / Raspberry Pi 2 nach SES

Withings Pulse Pouch in my pocket — I replaced my old Omron pedometer with the Withings Pulse. The OLED display and the design are nice. However it has one design flaw – it’s impossible to attach the little device to your trousers in a secure way. It’s really easy to loose the Withings Pulse with the original […]

Pouch for my Withings Pulse

26 Feb, 2014 in Allgemeines / Basteln / Technik Tagged Pouch / Withings Pulse nach SES

I won the TinkerForge Weather Station at the Infineon 2013 online Christmas give-away event. It took a little while for the Infineon reindeer to deliver it, but here it is 🙂 Assembling the kit (it consisting of a handful of laser cut Plexiglas, lots of screws and nuts and of […]

TinkerForge – Weather-Station Kit

16 Feb, 2014 in Schaltungen/ICs / Technik Tagged Brick / Bricklet / TinkerForge nach SES

Sit Perfect App — This app (written in Processing) is our entry for the Intel Perceptual Challenge. It tries to help computer users maintaining a better posture. Sit Perfect detects the users face and determines, if the user sits too near or too far away from the monitor. We use the face detection algorithm […]

Intel Perceptual Challenge App: Sit Perfect

1 Sep, 2013 in Technik Tagged Intel Perceptual Challenge / Posture / SDK / Sit Perfect / Webcam nach SES

What could be better to start a Saturday morning, than a cup of tea boiled with the heat of the sun. — Ok, maybe a cruise in the Caribbean 😉 Last month I picked up this used Solar Cooker for around 60€. It has a diameter of about 70cm and […]

Solar Cooker: making some tea water with the help of ...

10 Aug, 2013 in Basteln / Technik / Umweltmaus / Welt draußen Tagged cooker / Solar / solar cooker / sun / tea / water nach SES

In the last weeks I assembled the Hexy robot together. Soon after building everything together I found out, that the power supply is not capable of powering the robots 19 servo motors. I use five Eneloop rechargeable batteries. And even those quality batteries are not able to fully power the […]