21 DECEMBER 2014
Since starting to design and manufacturer our own Raspberry Pi expansion boards which we sell on www.abelectronics.co.uk we have found that the testing phase of the board production has always been very time consuming as...
23 MARCH 2014
Alongside our electronic projects another long term hobby has been model making and more specifically model railways. We have had a model railway in our loft workshop for many years and it has always been a way of...
27 FEBRUARY 2014
For a few years now we have been using a GW Instek GPC-1850D power supply in our workshop and while it has served us well over that time there has always been one issue that has annoyed us, the loud cooling fan in the back...
14 APRIL 2013
Following from the Arduino pick and place update blog post video and Automatic component feeders post we have now completed the first version of the Android tablet control software which uses bluetooth to communincate...
14 SEPTEMBER 2012
Update April 2015
Since the launch of this first ADC board for the Raspberry Pi it has been replaced with the ADC Pi models and we have also mde variants of the ADC board with a ADC Differential Pi which is a 8...
26 MAY 2012
Following from Arduino based Solar PV and Hot water monitoring and logging posts the various hardware and parts of the software have been installed into the PV control cupboard and the new logging hardware and software is...
13 MAY 2012
Following from Arduino based Solar PV and Hot water monitoring and logging post the various hardware and parts of the software have been installed, built and written.
After two busy weekends working on the project the...
13 MAY 2012
As part of the solar hot water system (view other blog posts) we have been installing onto our home we wanted to be able to keep track of the time the solar water pump is running. To monitor the pump we decided to use...
13 MAY 2012
As part of the solar hot water system (view other blog posts) we have been installing onto our home we wanted to be able to keep track of the mains electric being used by the house. Based on the open source OpenEnergyMontor...
13 MAY 2012
Next stage of the solar hot water install, fitting a new dual coil hot water cylinder.
The new cylinder was 150mm taller and 70mm wider than the old hot water cylinder which was installed before which required all the...