Programming the very affordable Baofeng UV-5R (also available as Pofung UV-5R) dual band mobile radio can be quite complicated. Luckily, there is a program called CHIRP. This free
For this year’s Halloween I wanted to do some fun DIY projects with stuff I already had laying around. This project is about simulating the lightning and thunder
In earlier posts on installing the Arduino IDE on your computer we only talked about installing it on Linux. For completeness, we will be installing the IDE on
In the previous blog post “IoT server: Mosquitto and Node Red on Raspberry Pi” we installed the Mosquitto MQTT broker and restricted access by requiring passwords for the
Setting up your own local, private and secure ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) server is easy with Mosquitto, Node Red and a Raspberry Pi. Sometimes this route is preferable
One of the fun things about Arduino is the availability of many types of sensors. With those sensors you are able to measure and detect about anything. Most of them
