The DS3231 Real Time Clock breakout keeps extremely accurate time, has a battery backup, and only costs a few dollars. Combine it with just about any microcontroller, a display, plus a simple stand, and you have a custom precision clock that can sit on your desk and satisfy your timing needs in a visually-unique way.
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ESP32 Conference Badge
TLDR: Just go to to the GitHub repo to grab the code and other related resources. https://github.com/DigiTorus86/ESP32Badge The “Badge My IoT Life” ESP32 Conference Badge used at CodeMash 2020 is a great little project for learning/practicing solder skills and rapidly prototyping microcontroller projects that require any of these common peripherals: Screen/display User input buttons SD […]
DIY Macro Keypad
Let’s face it – using keyboard shortcuts tends to be a lot faster than drilling down through context menus, but memorizing the special key combinations can be a pain. Special-purpose key pads such as Stream Decks solve this problem, but come at a premium price. The good news is that it is easy to make […]