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VALLHORN Wireless Motion Sensor teardown

I was at the Ikea this week and picked up the new motion sensor. The VALLHORN.The senso...

July 11, 2024

ATMAGE328pb and NRF24 - 2.0V.

As a follow-up on yesterdays blog post, I’ve tried to modify one of my sensorPCB to run...

June 11, 2024

NRF24 10th month update.

Battery life timeThis one is very hard to answer, the batteries Voltage is very tempera...

June 09, 2024

Long range with NRF24L01+ and ina228 power monitor

NRF24L01+ LNAIn my previous post I remarked that the nrf24l01+ modules with LNA did not...

October 04, 2023

Low power with atmega328pb and NRF24L01+

Recently at work I had to do some experiments with the classic nrf24l01modules. These a...

September 17, 2023

Making the stupid dumb V2. UPPÅTVIND

About 1 1/2 year ago I made a blogpost about making the Förnuftig smart. Thisone is sti...

January 15, 2023

Getting NTFY.sh going

Doing a lot in home-automation one key part is notifications. In my opinionnotification...

January 09, 2023

Hitting a new low-power record with the esp32c3 - part 2

To get to the low power usage of the previous blog post there several steps Itook. The ...

December 13, 2022

Hitting a new low-power record with the esp32c3

When looking up some information I blogged about in the past, I realized Ihaven’t poste...

December 12, 2022

Parkside Performance Smart accu 20V - 8Ah - Small review

Since a few weeks lidl sells Parkside Smart Batteries.The batteries have an impressive ...

January 30, 2022

Bad power supply unit might kill your MCU, do not buy!

On my balcony I have a very small solar panel setup that I use to keep a small car batt...

October 04, 2021

Making the stupid dumb. Vindriktning and Förnuftig

A while back I saw rumors that IKEA was introducing air quality sensors andair-purifier...

July 22, 2021

ESP32-S2-Wroom - new lows in power saving.

Two weeks ago I was shopping on mouser to find some GPS modules (might blog about this ...

May 18, 2021

My solution for a cheap air purifier - part 4

I made a few small updates to the air purifier to finish it off.New lidTo reduce sound ...

May 02, 2021

My solution for a cheap air purifier - part 3

This part will describe the electronics for this 2nd air purifier.I had a nice 24V fan ...

May 02, 2021