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The Unseen Problem with Smart Meters: Breaking Your Smart Home Photo

The Unseen Problem with Smart Meters: Breaking Your Smart Home

New smart energy meters promised better efficiency, but they’ve ended up breaking Home Assistant setups and ruining long-term energy logging. Here’s what went wrong and how it’s affecting our smart home

13 September 2024 9 min read

Amazon Echo Spot Teardown - Smart speaker with LCD Photo

Amazon Echo Spot Teardown - Smart speaker with LCD

Welcome to a in-depth teardown of the 2024 Amazon Echo Spot Smart Speaker with LCD display. In this blog post, we'll be taking a closer look at the inner workings of this popular smart home device, uncovering the components that power its advanced features, and exploring its construction

11 September 2024 31 min read

Twelve years of Raspberry Pi Development Boards Photo

Twelve years of Raspberry Pi Development Boards

For over 12 years, AB Electronics UK has been designing and developing Raspberry Pi development boards. Throughout this time, we've gained extensive experience in developing high-quality circuit boards specifically designed for hobbyists and developers.

26 July 2024 7 min read

PartFinder 2.0 Core component inventory manager Photo

PartFinder 2.0 Core component inventory manager

This is a new release of the PartFinder component inventory manager I released four years ago in March 2020 which now runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

21 June 2024 11 min read

Trooli Fibre Internet and a new UniFi Dream Machine Pro Network Upgrade Photo

Trooli Fibre Internet and a new UniFi Dream Machine Pro Network Upgrade

We now have much faster internet thanks to a new fibre connection and internet using Trooli and upgrading from our PFSense firewall to a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro

03 May 2024 9 min read

ESP32 RGB Microscope LED Ring Light Photo

ESP32 RGB Microscope LED Ring Light

Designing a new RGB LED ring light for our microscope with an ESP32 WiFi controller using a manual control and web interface

13 April 2024 15 min read

What’s happening and plans for 2024 Photo

What’s happening and plans for 2024

An overview of what I have been doing for the past few months and changes to work and plans for my businesses Apexweb and AB Electronics UK

29 March 2024 11 min read

Ikea Styrbar with Home Assistant as a Sonos Remote Control Photo

Ikea Styrbar with Home Assistant as a Sonos Remote Control

Using the Ikea STYRBAR, four-button remote as a simple controller for Sonos Smart speakers with Home Assistant

04 March 2024 5 min read

Radxa X2L Computer Custom 3D Printed Case Photo

Radxa X2L Computer Custom 3D Printed Case

Enhance your Radxa X2L Computer with style using a custom 3D printed case with STL files on GitHub to print your own

29 February 2024 8 min read

Radxa X2L and ADC Pi, Microcontrollers with Linux Photo

Radxa X2L and ADC Pi, Microcontrollers with Linux

Adding analogue inputs to the Intel Celeron J4125 Radxa X2L using an ADC Pi Raspberry Pi development hat with micro python

10 February 2024 13 min read

Fujinon Pro 2010 Night Vision Scope Infrared LED Mod Photo

Fujinon Pro 2010 Night Vision Scope Infrared LED Mod

We added an infrared LED into our Fujinon Pro 2010 night vision monocular to help with night vision illumination

30 January 2024 4 min read

Three Elgato Key Light remote control using an ESP32 Wi-Fi module Photo

Three Elgato Key Light remote control using an ESP32 Wi-Fi module

Building a remote controller for three Elgato Key Lights using a low-cost ESP32 Wi-Fi module with push switches and indicator LEDs

26 January 2024 15 min read

Elgato Key Light remote control using an ESP32 Wi-Fi module Photo

Elgato Key Light remote control using an ESP32 Wi-Fi module

Building a simple remote controller for Elgato Key Lights using a low-cost ESP32 Wi-Fi module and a push switch

20 January 2024 16 min read

Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Fungus image quality problems Photo

Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Fungus image quality problems

Our Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera had a fungus problem which made the camera unusable until it was taken apart and cleaned

15 January 2024 2 min read

Fujinon Pro 2010 night vision monocular teardown and repair Photo

Fujinon Pro 2010 night vision monocular teardown and repair

Teardown and easy repair of a Fujinon Pro 2010 night vision monocular

12 January 2024 5 min read

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