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React-Teave: Ranking teas according to your preferences

React-Teave: Ranking teas according to your preferences

Introducing React-Teave! A tea ranking site made in React that sorts rated teas to your preferences.

Common Ingredient Pairings

Common Ingredient Pairings

Exploring 170k recipes from Food.com and visualizing it in D3. Find out 10 most common ingredient pairs and the top 10 condiments people use! Spoiler: salt is the most common condiment.

Building a D3 Binary Tree

Building a D3 Binary Tree

Tldr: I built an animated binary tree following the lessons learned from the D3 course on Frontend Masters by Shirley Wu as well as Brian Holt's Introduction to Computer Science. Play with the tree here: https://bl.ocks.org/benlhy/83a93740449b29ab731184bd233c9994/8f68c0d8ed273ac075102a5e7af886559d80eb81 [https://bl.ocks.org/benlhy/7258f0772a41f07636739a7a942c20aa/

Notes on The Lean Startup and The Mythical Man-Month

Notes on The Lean Startup and The Mythical Man-Month

A few short notes that I took away from The Lean Startup and The Mythical Man-Month

How I built a YNAB-like budget in Google Sheets

How I built a YNAB-like budget in Google Sheets

How I created a YNAB-like budgeting system in Google Sheets. Benefits: $0/yr + an automated budgeting pipeline that requires minimal management.

Cross Origin Resource Sharing Woes (CORS)

Cross Origin Resource Sharing Woes (CORS)

How to fix CORS errors when trying to GET a HTTP endpoint API.

Towards automatic generation of EAGLE parts

Towards automatic generation of EAGLE parts

How I tried to automatically generate parts quickly in EAGLE and succeeded! (and failed)

STM32Cube IDE

A cosmetic upgrade to ST's in-house IDE offering with some quality of life improvements. If you are developing with STM32 or thinking of getting started, this is the IDE for you.

Silicon Labs EFM8 'Bee' Series

Silicon Labs EFM8 'Bee' Series

Life after Arduino. A review of a serious contender for the 'simple project' microcontroller.

Padauk Microcontrollers: Exploration and Usage

3 cent microcontroller

Padauk Microcontrollers: Exploration and Usage

Exploring the 3 cent microcontroller from Padauk, Taiwan. Impression: A legitimate replacement for simple use-case projects.

Design Analysis - Simple Clock

Design Analysis - Simple Clock

A simple clock that you can find anywhere for cheap. I take a close look at what makes it tick.

Design Analysis - Bluetooth Button

Design Analysis - Bluetooth Button

A design analysis of a cheap bluetooth button used for finding lost objects or activating remote cameras. This is actually quite a well designed device, featuring a lot of Poka Yoke design elements.

OpenThread

An overview and implementation of OpenThread, a mesh networking protocol in BLE 5.0. Featuring the Nordic nRF52840! Fun and very accessible.

C005 Cheap Delay Timer

C005 Cheap Delay Timer

Need to turn off your circuit for some time but don't want to fiddle with a microcontroller/sleep settings? How about using a delay timer board for 10 cents?

Design Analysis - Table Lamp

Design Analysis - Table Lamp

A table lamp teardown with a focus on mechanical and electrical design elements.

Automating my home with MQTT

Automating my home with MQTT

How I automated and connected sensors with MQTT! Featuring sunrise alarms, 3D printers, and sensor nodes!

Raspberry Pi NAS in 2020

Raspberry Pi NAS in 2020

Want to access your hard drive from anywhere? Have a spare Raspberry Pi lying about, just waiting for a project? Set up a Raspberry Pi NAS with updated instructions for 2020!

Notes from People, Power, and Profits

Notes from People, Power, and Profits

Notes from People, Power, and Profits

Sunbar

The SunBar is light alarm, following my development of light-based alarms which I have found to be quite effective in establishing a set routine of waking up early. The earlier versions were based off: a breadboarded circuit, a protoboard circuit with an ATTiny85, and an Arduino Shield. Protoboard circuitThe protoboard

News To Speech with AWS Polly

News To Speech with AWS Polly

Convert any digital content to audio for listening with AWS Polly! In this piece we also fix utf-8 formatting issues.

New Flight Altimeter for Model Rocketry

New Flight Altimeter for Model Rocketry

A modern flight altimeter with BLE!

Getting NRF Logging to work in Segger Embedded Studio

Getting NRF Logging to work in Segger Embedded Studio

Getting NRF logging to work in Segger Embedded Studio

M.O.O.S.E

Design Competition 2019! This year features some cool new sensors!

How to program an ATtiny85 easily

How to program an ATtiny85 easily

How to program an ATtiny85 in Arduino easily with micronucleus.

The Essentials Board

Essentials Board

The Essentials Board

A universal breakout board that takes care of power and clock for SMD microcontrollers.