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How to Optimize Your Bluetooth Device Battery Life

If your product isn’t lasting as long as you want to, it may be time to do a current profile on your product and see where you can optimize power. This is a must for battery…

2018.11.1 · 7 Minute Read

Adding Search to a Hugo Site With Lunr and Gulp

I just recently added search to Circuit Dojo but it was not as straight forward as I had hoped. There was plenty of people who had done it but there were some important details…

2018.8.3 · 7 Minute Read

Prototype Electronics With Wire Wrap

Wire wrapping one of my favorite prototyping techniques. Used previously for making the interconnections between integrated circuits on motherboards in the 60’s and 70’s it has…

2018.5.24 · 2 Minute Read

Deploy HomeBridge On Raspberry Pi Using Resin.io

I’ve been nerding out. It’s something I just can’t stop sometimes. Most recently working on making our home more connected and efficient. Part of the effort was experimenting with…

2017.11.1 · 5 Minute Read

Connectivity in an Iot World Long Range Part 2

In my previous article, I went into detail about the short range possibilities for connecting a device to the outside world. But sometimes you need to go the distance; and when I’m…

2017.6.19 · 9 Minute Read

Connectivity in an Iot World Short Range Part 1

It’s been a while since i’ve played with Bluetooth and I’ve been researching every connectivity technology that exists to create a IoT. After some laborious searching reading and…

2017.6.12 · 4 Minute Read

What's Cool in Hardware - May 2017

Over my past few posts there has been a common theme of “using things that already exist.” This stems from a mindset of building things from scratch whether or not they’re actually…

2017.5.13 · 10 Minute Read

How to Wrangle Your Supply Chain

It’s stressful to be on the front lines of a pre-production effort. It’s even more stressful when you are the only person that is responsible for the majority of the design,…

2017.5.8 · 9 Minute Read

Raspberry Pi Getting Interactive With Websockets

In order to get interactive with your now serial enabled Raspberry Pi we need a framework that will provide the ability to communicate in real time over the web. For example, first…

2017.5.4 · 11 Minute Read