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Introduction Some time ago I started a project of reusing an old, crappy toaster oven as a reflow solder oven. I did some necessary improvements on the oven, like adding a glass wool isolation. I also examined dynamic characteristics of the oven by looking at its transient response to a step input power. Everything was...
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Two circuit boards that I designed with Eagle use tiny components that I knew I could not solder with a soldering iron (chips in QFN packages and others). You can see one of the designs below. I was aware of two low-cost ways to solder them: with a hot plate, or in an oven. I...
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This page shows the process of modifying a Poppery II popcorn popper so that the motor and heater coils can be operated independently of each other. During the modification a thermistor is added to monitor the temperature of the coils and a thermocouple to monitor the chamber temperature.
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Aqara G2H (ZNSXJ12LM) is a really nice Zigbee hub and indoor camera with official HomeKit support. Of course it runs Linux so people have discovered ways to connect it to Home Assistant which exposes most of your HomeKit devices to Home Assistant over MQTT without impacting the original Apple Home and Aqara app integrations. Aqara...
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