My first blog post and I wanted to introduce myself!
I'm a Canadian Journeyman Electronics Technician and Journeyman Electrician.
After spending quite a number of years in the field, I now try to spend my time teaching Electronics & Electrical to Apprentices or MakerSpace students.
My passions are connecting devices (usually Raspberry Pi's, Arduino, or ESP-8266 or 32's) to the outside world.
My home projects include powering my Pi's and other devices with Solar power as well as Pi controlled plant watering systems and lighting control systems.
When we renovated our kitchen & bathrooms we installed LED strip lighting in the toe kicks of the cupboards and I've wired all of them to a Pi downstairs and we control it via a Node-Red dashboard that we can access from our phones, tablets & computers. If anyone is interested in the Raspberry Pi / MOSFET LED controllers, etc. please let me know & I'll be happy to post some pics!
Here is a pic of a Raspberry Pi controlling a 120V power bar via a 5V input. Given the Pi really only wants to see 3.3V, I've done a bit of a work around to enable it to work!
Thanks for viewing!
Robin
Please post more Raspberry Pi stuff and definitely some Node-Red posts. If you post under stemgeeks.net front end instead of peakd you will also earn STEM tokens as well.
Nice post I would like to see someone how you're controlling the LEDs. I like the raspberry pi also! I am currently designing dimmable LED indirect lighting for the Homestead, I'll be running it off at 24 volts battery. I'll charge the battery with solar and wind. Keep posting, and add it to Homestead and prepper; it can help some people out there. I am building a 24 volt thousand amp battery from recovered laptop cells, it will power my Homestead off grid!
Glad you're here on hive! :-)
♡♡♡♡♡Looking forward to chatting more about Pi in general and Node-Red. Nice to meet you!
Where in Alberta are you? I grew up in Calgary (Bowness) a long, long - long, very long - time ago.
Born & raised in Calgary, and then moved to Irricana (45 mins NW of Calgary) about 10 years ago. Wanted to get away from the city itself, but still be close enough to take work there, etc. I lived deep in the SE and worked in the far NE and it took longer to drive through the city than it does from Irricana to the city. And not having to drive on the freeways was much more relaxing!
Bet you don't miss the cold weather?
Thanks!
Well, honestly, sometimes I do miss it. Not all the time, but sometime.
I remember living near UC campus on 17th Ave near 10th street. I'd ride my bike to work in the summer down 10th st to the bike paths along the river, and ride into the industrial parks in the south east of the city. Going back home up 10th street at the end of the day was a chore!