Have a iPhone lightning cable where its white insulation has been peeled off and the internal wire exposed? If the cable is still functioning, e.g. you are able to charge your phone and transfer data, do not throw it away. You can save the cable by a simple fix. First, you need to find a heat shrink tube that is about the size of the lightning cable connector. It is … [Read more...]
One Watt LED Night Light
This is a very simple electronic project. I built this as a night light in my sleeping room. The reason for building this was, the existing LED night light that I bought from the Mr DIY is a bit dangerous because it needs to be connected to AC power source and my daughter always wants to play with it. With this LED night light, I can connect it to any mobile phone's … [Read more...]
Electronics Project – Simple Card Read Keyboard Emulator Using Arduino Pro Micro
I bought this little thing - Micro Pro - from the China website. I think it is a clone or compatible to the SparkFun's Micro Pro. It is easy to use. It comes with USB that you can use it to program the microcontroller or let the microcontroller to communicate with your computer. You can simply use the Keyboard library from the Arduino to program a keyboard emulator: … [Read more...]
Electronics Project – Raspberry Pi + Attiny85 + LCD 1620
I always want to start an electronic project that build a home automation system but I don't have much time. Don't have time is just a bad excuse. So to make thing starts, I start buying electronic components and devices that I need and trying them one by one. … [Read more...]
New SSD Cloud Hosting @DigitalOcean
I have recently moved all my websites to another VPS hosting. The previous dedicated server was too expensive to me to continue as I didn't earn much from the websites' income. The previous hosting was USD$119 per month and the one at DigitalOcean is only USD$10 per month. I'm having good experience with DigitalOcean hosting. To deploy a VPS (they call it droplet) is blazing … [Read more...]