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Using the 4 pins of the ESP8266-01

“The limited number (4) of GPIO pins on the ESP8266-01 may seem like an obstacle, for any serious application. Yet if one uses the pins in a smart way it is very well possible to do a lot with …

Automatic volume tracking for a TV

“A couple of years ago I was given a non-working 50” Philips flat-panel TV. As is often the case with these things, there was actually very little wrong with it and in this instance it was a pair of bad …

Backup e gravação de Memory Card PS1 (Arduino & Python)

“Gostaria de começar o post falando das muitas horas de diversão na minha infância proporcionadas pelo meu Playstation, mas não, nunca tive um. Se não me engano, o único jogo do PS1 que joguei foi Digimon Rumble Arena. Apesar disso …

Reverse engineering a server CPU voltage regulator module

“A recent ebay fishing expedition yielded an interesting little part for the very reasonable sum of about five pounds. It’s a voltage regulator module from a Dell PowerEdge 6650 Xeon server. I originally bought this because I had the …

Arduino 433MHz message transmission over 100 meters

“In this instructable I will show how to employ this ultra cheap 433mHz transmitter/receiver kit to send and receive short messages over max 100 meters in open air (tested).”

Raspberry Pi 7 inch touchscreen display hacking

“Its amazing that regular persons can buy capacitive touch panels in single quantities nowadays. Ive been interested in getting hold of one for years, ever since I heard that many capacitive touch screen controllers allow you to read out the …

A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens

“In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed them to start the ignition of millions of Volkswagen cars and drive them off without a key …

32Mb ESP01 and Sonoff

“Some time ago I passed comment in here about converting an ESP-01 to 32Mb (or 4MB). And here it is in the flesh a 32Mb ESP-01 and also at last Sonoff Upgrades. Now, why would you want to …

Modify an RGB LED kit to power more LEDs

“It is indeed possible to modify an RGB LED kit to accommodate a longer length of RGB strip.”

How to Make a Fullyrotational Servo

“In this Instructables I will show you how to make a fullyrotational servo from a standard 9g servo.”