Simon Law https://simonlaw.com.au/ Keeping the glow alive! Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:10:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://simonlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-site-icon-32x32.png Simon Law https://simonlaw.com.au/ 32 32 Automatic router rebooter https://simonlaw.com.au/electronics/automatic-router-rebooter/ Wed, 20 May 2020 07:10:05 +0000 https://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=882 Found this project which is perfect for us at home.http://www.whatimade.today/make-an-automatic-router-re-starter-for-3-with-an-esp8266-01-and-single-relay/ It’s an automatic router rebooter, which basically reboots your router if it cannot communicate with the internet. Our router (Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 D7000) has...

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]]> Raspberry Pi digital photo frame https://simonlaw.com.au/electronics/raspberry-pi-digital-photo-frame/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:43:00 +0000 https://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=870 Finished the raspberry pi digital photo frame, which I started over three years ago! When I was first working on it, I was using Flickr to store the photos and using their API to look at...

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]]> Raspberry Pi Solar PV usage display https://simonlaw.com.au/electronics/raspberry-pi-solar-pv-usage-display/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:03:37 +0000 https://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=843 Bought a gfxhat from pimoroni and got it working with my fronius inverter with some help from a user on the pimoroni forums. This is displaying the power generation and usage of our solarpv system. The nice...

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]]> 1966 February https://simonlaw.com.au/magazines/electronics-australia/1966-february/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 23:06:02 +0000 http://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=778 Electronics Australia Archive February 1966 Contents of Volume 27, No. 11 Inertial Guidance – 4 Europe’s First Microcomputer – 9 Eyes for the Blind – 11 Electronics and Road Safety – 12 Review- 3D...

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]]> 1966 January https://simonlaw.com.au/magazines/electronics-australia/1966-january/ Thu, 05 Oct 2017 09:56:01 +0000 http://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=755 Electronics Australia Archive January 1966 Contents of Volume 27, No. 10 How Thick Is Thin? – 4 Window On The lnvisible – 9 Prospecting With lsotopes – 11 Planned Music for lndustry – 12...

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]]> Solar Hot Water data logging https://simonlaw.com.au/electronics/solar-hot-water-data-logging/ Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:23:29 +0000 http://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=731 After the solar hot water system was installed, the installer showed me how I could go to the controller and see the temperatures at the collectors and two different positions in the water tank....

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]]> Oscilloscope Music https://simonlaw.com.au/electronics/oscilloscope-music/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:54:54 +0000 http://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=648 Giving the XY mode of my GwInstek GDS-1022 digital oscilloscope a go with Jerobeam Fenderson demo oscilloscope music track. Love it! Not quite as good as through an analog scope, but not bad! Music...

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]]> Masska nixie display https://simonlaw.com.au/electronics/masska-nixie-display/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:53:10 +0000 http://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=704 A client approached me to make a nixie clock and while perusing my website saw my Four Letter Word display using B-7971 nixie tubes. He asked if I could make one but have it...

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]]> Wemos temperature sensors https://simonlaw.com.au/electronics/wemos-temperature-sensors/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:55:59 +0000 http://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=680 Finished the temperature sensors which I now have around the house. Used a protoshield for the Wemos D1 mini with the DS18B20 digital temperature sensor. Power is supplied via a powerbank which has two...

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]]> 1965 December https://simonlaw.com.au/magazines/electronics-australia/1965-december/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:09:26 +0000 http://www.simonlaw.com.au/?p=665 Electronics Australia Archive December 1965 Contents of Volume 27, No. 9 Carnarvon Tracking Station – 4 Electronics in the Met. Office – 8 Booking Airline Seat, Part 2 – 12 Problems with Poles –...

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