Recent content by manuka

I bow to your cartography. Such a formal resting place's rules certainly should be investigated. See => https://www.napier.govt.nz/services/napier-cemeteries/western-hills-cemetery/ (Some decades back we lost a daughter & found our desired headstone did not fit the cemetery's criteria ...)...

Greetings -that lat./long. is ~Taupo,half way up NZ's North Island. Very sorry to hear of your loss but (in light of my experiences) if the memorial is in a public cemetery best first consult with the authorities regarding anything of this nature! Some have strict rules about headstones...

Coals to Newcastle (!) as when an early 1960s teen I used to import (by seamail...) UK sourced e-items. I'll check p&p & let you know. Stan. in NZ

Yes -I indeed ran with the "Snap" concept & (as well as IR) also looked at rustling up modules for inbuilt DS18B20 temperature reading or 2 way 433 MHz wireless data. Elenco & I were in touch at one stage too. This was ~2007 & pre the likes of BT & smartphones etc. Where do you live ? I could...

Gasp -yesteryear! About 16 years ago (& pre Elenco's approach) I rustled up a 08M based "Snapped PICAXE" article & Instructable to support educational STEM work. The gutted Snap sound module/08M based design pleasingly proved versatile enough to suit both micro motivated youngsters & curious...

Indeed - & NOT off topic but appropiate "state of the art" technology - Android smart phones make for great e-engines ! Their global abundance & familiarity eases operating ergonomics of course too. Aside from BT & WiFi serial display (suiting modern micros which offer wireless ) direct...

FYI: Publicity has -sigh- again arisen here in NZ when car remotes refused to operate in a shopping mall carpark. Management declared it an "electrical incident", but it's probably 433MHz band interference...

Dauntingly slow times indeed... I wonder how these compare with the original Ciseco wireless modules from a decade back? Anyone ( Hippy ? ) ?

Magnificent, but I must have had a sheltered life as the show is unknown to me. Mmm-30 gives 4 spare after A-Z so scope for more => 1, 2, 3, &, @, $, ? etc

Sorry to hear of the "abandonment" after such sterling strenuous slaving. Fingers crossed for BLE & HM-19 !

Those values look very satisfactory & should be readily handled (outdoors) by a small PV panel. Looking forward to seeing your code & circuitry. Take a break for the festive season ! Stan. in summery NZ

I support simplicity & for the likes of "a weather station on the barn roof " the increased transfer duration should not be too concerning. What typical current drains (both now & originally) are you seeing ? Stan.

Although penned pre the recent MMBASIC persuasion the latest (Dec.2021) "Silicon Chip" mag. has a great RPi pico article,including mention of Pimoroni's stamp sized Tiny 2040 => https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/tiny-2040?variant=39560012234835

Assume you mean this? The 1,2,3 simply relate to ID of genuine HC-12. Although I was an early HC-12 user magnificent LoRa rather took my fancy from about 2015 & I've not kept up with the the fake saga. However I recall new "fakes" had crystals off spec. so that (on the 433MHz ISM band) a...

More good news ! Perhaps an issue is that the HC12 Tx rating of 100mW is too powerful for the 433 MHz ISM band. However it "can" be decreased & even readily set to other UHF frequencies that may be legal in particular countries. Fellow Kiwi Rob Rozee even wrote a configuring GUI =>...