Making my "Neon" signs I was redoing my room and I needed something to put on the (now) empty walls. I basically had a completely blank canvas. Well, I looked for ideas online and found these "neon" signs, basically just LED strips wrapped in a fancy silicone channel to give it an even glow.
Projects Frameless Magic Mirror Some of you may remember when I first started building the 43" Magic Mirror that I was intending to put in my room. Well, two months later, I've finally finished it. I originally was planning to use a 43" OLED panel from LG but they literally don't exist. I found
Projects Adding Apple CarPlay to a 2013 Volvo XC70 I don't recommend this :p The Sensus navigation system in my car stopped receiving updates, and I needed a way to get my phone's maps on my car's screen. I originally looked into getting a standard double-DIN radio, but when I took the dash apart, it was a completely closed,
Securing an Express REST API with JSON Web Tokens (and generating them) Recently, I have been working on a few projects that rely on users being able to authenticate against an API. I couldn't use session cookies due to the API host and client being on separate hostnames. I decided to go with using JWTs due to the fact that they were
Projects Converting the SmartThings Hub for Home Assistant I was baffled when Samsung decided to sunset the "Original SmartThings App" in order to move users over to the newer version. While I would normally be happy with such a decision, they switched everyone over without adding support for over half of the devices we have at home. Switching
Projects Cheaper Nanoleaf Lights with the EFM8 MCU Crossposted from my Instructables accountI was inspired to make these after I saw the Nanoleaf light triangles in the store, but I was disheartened to see that each tile cost twenty dollars! I set out to make an equivalent product, but to keep the price per tile around three to
Projects Converting Lulzbot Mini to 1.75mm I 3D print a ton. Having the ability to print multiple things at once is a lifesaver when you are in the process of designing enclosures or functional products. But, my printers accept different sizes of filament. This incompatibility made it inefficient and hard to utilize both the printers as
