• Reading an image bitmap file from the web using ESP8266 and C++

    There are a couple of different ways to do it, but I wanted to do it after a simple image example, to understand a bit better how reading a stream from the web to get as far as the pixel information and send it to a display. As a reference then I started with ZinggJM/GxEPD…

  • E-Paper driver to make your electronics smaller

    Got from Waveshare some of this E-Paper ESP8266 driver boards: I’m trying to make the electronics of my displays as small as possible and to avoid the wire-chaos inside the case with the goal of having more space for the battery. This will basically spare the need of the driver HAT and additional cables, something…

  • Wemos D1 consumption and VCC pins

    So this 6 min boring video was just an experiment to make a small consumption table comparing how the Wemos D1 mini behaves when receiving power through the 5v and 3v3  pins. 5v: 75.5 avg mA only Wifi 126.5 mA with relay on 2.5 mA on deep sleep mode 3v3: 75.4 avg mA only Wifi…

  • Playing with a Wemos D1 (ESP8266)

    After learning some Arduino and building some demos I decided to give it a try to another Chips. And this one is the ESP8266, you can find it in eBay or alixpress searching for “wemos D1” Basically this little guy has kind of the same capabilities of an Atmel chip with less Digital outputs(9) but…

  • Starting again with Arduino and 3D design

    About a month ago I joined the amazing community of Thingiverse and started uploading my first designs made on Blender. One of the first projects is to control automatically the curtain blinds to ensure we don’t have to get up to turn them manually. Actually it’s just a great excuse to learn more about arduino…

  • How routing internally works in Symfony 4 framework

    At the moment of writing this I’m testing the Symfony 4 Framework after reading the following article and also Fabian’s latest posts on Medium.  I’m testing weather the not yet officially released version, will be a future candidate for some new project or not. But the interesting part of this research is that I already…

  • Integrating SSO in a project using Shibboleth authentication

    Shibboleth is an open-source identity federation solution that’s used in research and education communities worldwide. Basically is a federating agent that consists of 2 components: 1- Service Provider (SP) which request attributes, represented in this implementation als storage.luckycloud.de using Apache2-mod-shib 2- Identity Provider(IDP) which broadcasts attributes, and will be implemented in the Login-logic of the…

  • Friction powered Longboard

    This is a redesign of the Rotor Flettner project. The effect works after testing it mounted on a windsurf board but it has a potential flaw: Magnus effect has a smaller force than the wind pulling you to the side. The result is that you go more in the wind direction than in the direction…

  • Anderson.Paak dances with us in Berlin

    Great concert in Lido with Herr Paak. Only bad detail: The sound in LIDO. I know that in small shows is almost impossible to have a great acoustic. But I heard Robert Glasper in Festsaal Kreuzberg 2 years ago, and it was just awesome sound. Leaving out the differences, since Festsaal was 90% wood, and…

  • Learning DOCKER #1

    Docker is an exciting technology since April 2013 when it started as open source project. But is only since last year or so that I started hearing more and more about it. And it’s mostly because some companies like Zalando (Berlin) , Spotify and Netflix started implementing it successfully in their servers. The Docker Mantra…

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