How to Reduce Arduino Uno Power Usage by 95%
Sometimes you have to use an Arduino UNO, instead of something more efficient like an Arduino Pro Mini — maybe you're using an Arduino shield… Sometimes you have to run that [...]
Hackday: Connecting Sensors with LoRaWAN
Now there's a larger coverage area of LoRaWAN in Liverpool that provides free access to the public The Things Network service, it's the ideal time to start connecting more devices, more [...]
Things North Wins the Big Chip IoT Impact Award
Things North is a loose association of The Things Network communities spread across the north of England. As an umbrella collective, it is interested in spreading public access to LoRaWAN networks [...]
Sensing Nerf Darts
If you're going to build a foam dart range, then at some point you're going to have to build a some kind of sensor to be able to register the hits [...]
TTN Liverpool is Official
With the placement of Liverpool's first permanent LoRaWAN gateway, and the launch announcement of The Things Network Liverpool at IoT Liverpool just over a week ago, there's been a clear movement [...]
The Things Network Liverpool
“There’s a LoRa LoRA...WAN in Liverpool” We are the initiator for the Things Network Liverpool community and we shall be launching in February 2017, at the IoT Liverpool event , our [...]
About Made Invaders
In the 1970s and 80s shooting galleries that used simple light detection were everywhere. The rifle would emit a simple pulse of light, and if that light happened to strike a [...]
Cheerlights Tower
As is traditional at Christmas here at DefProc, we attempt a small project to build a new fun, festive item. While this is spuriously titled as a 5 minute project, they [...]
Sizing Logos in KiCAD
There are some guides on adding a logo to KiCAD and making PCB artwork in KiCAD, but as they are from an earlier version, they still recommend using an web based [...]
Unbricking a Pro-Micro Board
I had a little trouble first setting up the Arduino compatible Pro Micro board in Ubuntu, but with that little hiccup out of the way, it's been a very useful board [...]
Microcontroller Courses
We run a set of courses that are used to teach technical staff from the Environment Agency to allow them to better understand the technology behind the environmental monitoring stations that [...]
A Small Egg
On the contrary to what little has been said already about this particular endeavour, the egg in question is actually on the rather large side. Andrew Small's comissioned piece "Egg Untitled" [...]