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NanoPC-T4: No room for anything else. // Review

#NanoPC-T4 website article from my video @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2TUYN5y-ps

In this article I’ll be taking a look at the newly released NanoPC-T4 from the friendliest SBC makers on the market. I’ll be running through the usual lineup of tests that I do, but I reckon this board deserves two articles. So, this is Part 1.

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Weekly Roundup #59: New Maker Products // News

This Week’s Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products is pretty quiet. Combined with two back-to-back holidays in China and the great MLC shortage of 2018, I’m not surprised. (more…)

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Running GoLang on an MCU. A quick tutorial.

If you’re a fan of GoLang then your options are limited in the embedded world. So, here’s a couple of options for you with a working bare metal example for an STM32 MCU written entirely in Go. (more…)

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Weekly Roundup #58: New Maker Products // News

This is yet another Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products, but going back to the old time-slot of Wednesday. I’ll be interleaving it with my other mid-week videos, so it’s technically not a Weekly Roundup, but anyway… On with the show. (more…)

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ODROID XU4: An SBC on `roids // Review

The ODROID XU4 is one of the few octo-core SBCs, that’s been around for a while now, but how good is it?

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MickMake Mail #32: EEVBlog 121GW, spycam hacking and other bits.

I’m still in reno mode, so only a couple of quick things in this mailbag. The new EEVBlog 121GW multimeter, cheap spycam hacking, the failed WiFi temperature shower head and Unexpected Maker’s WS2812 7 segment display. (more…)

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Weekly Roundup #55: New Maker Products // News

The Weekly Roundup of New Maker Products returns after a bit of a hiatus and a lot has happened since my last one. In particular, something that will completely change the electronics Maker community. (more…)

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Build a Pi Zero W pocket projector! // Project

Ever wanted a really small and cheap projector that can fit in your pocket? Here’s a quick project to make a Raspberry Pi Zero W based pocket projector. (more…)

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Weekly Roundup #54 – New Maker Products // News

Hi, this week’s Weekly Roundup is a little short as I was pretty busy last week with contract work, and I promise… no more trumpets. (more…)

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The 200th video competition. Woohoo!

After 2 years and 200 videos. Time for another competition! (more…)

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Make a PCB from scratch using EasyEDA // Part 2 // Tutorial

This is the second part of my video on building a simple PCB using EasyEDA. In this video we’ll be taking a look at how to use a solder stencil, placing SMD components, soldering using kitchen equipment and how to fix up your mistakes. (more…)

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Weekly Roundup #53 - New Maker Products // News

Weekly Roundup #53 – New Maker Products // News

This week’s Weekly Roundup there’s a serious amount of new SBCs, as well as the usual AI boards and thankfully we’re well past all those stupid robots that we saw last year. (more…)

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Announcing the mmBoard! A MickMake SBC with all the goodies.

I’ve got some pretty exciting news on a new SBC that’s about to be released. Read on to find out what it is. (more…)

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Raspberry Pi 3B+: Should you upgrade? // Review

So, I’ve been playing around with a bunch of the new Pi 3B pluses for a week now. Do I think the upgrade is worth it? Find out in this quick review. (more…)

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Build an MQTT based RGB LED panel! // Project

This quick project shows you how to build an MQTT controlled RGB LED matrix panel in under 30 minutes, but I reckon it should take you a lot less. (more…)

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MickMake Mail #27: A bit of clowning around. // News

This week’s MickMakeMail I’m cracking open the Big Clown IoT kit that was sent to me recently and a couple of AdaFruit 64×64 RGB panels. Just in time for a quick weekend project. (more…)

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Atmel Software Framework and build chain in a Docker container

A follow-up to my video tutorial: “Program an Atmel SAM without an IDE“. I’ve created a Docker container on GitHub with a complete ASF build chain. Ready to go. Go for it! (more…)

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