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robdobson.com

the personal site of rob dobson

Embedded / microcontrollersElectronicsSoftware / engineering practiceRetro computing

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84 from 3 Mar 2011 to 12 Oct 2026
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2026 4

  1. ROS 2 on ESP32 via USB
  2. Agent-free ROS 2 on an ESP32
  3. Using Kindle Fire 7 Without Its Battery
  4. A Wordy Watch

2025 2

  1. Forever Snowing & Glowing Snow Globe
  2. Cat Superpower: Opening Doors

2024 11

  1. Electronic Jewelry Power Design
  2. Program a Connected Device using Raft, Part 5
  3. Program a Connected Device using Raft, Part 4
  4. Program a Connected Device Using Raft, Part 3
  5. Program a Connected Device Using Raft, Part 2
  6. Program a Connected Device Using Raft, Part 1
  7. A Novel Heart-Rate algorithm with Phase-Locked Loop
  8. Auto Code Creation for I2C Devices
  9. I2C Auto Identification
  10. Hybrid Super-Caps – power for electronic jewelry?
  11. Is ArduinoJson Pointless?

2023 3

  1. Investigating ESP32-C3 Power Management
  2. BLE performance analysis with pyshark
  3. Scader Lights Up Many Circuits

2022 3

  1. Automate Everything for NPM Packages
  2. Use the Factory Pattern to Untangle your Code
  3. Create a React Native TypeScript Package

2020 7

  1. 3D Printing a ZX Spectrum-Style Computer Case
  2. The 10 Reasons I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System
  3. Embedding Micropython on ESP32
  4. Is there WROOM for a WROVER?
  5. Installing ESP-IDF on WSL2
  6. Marty Sounds – Convert Sounds for Marty (and RIC)
  7. Pushing Z80 to the Limits

2019 7

  1. Introducing the Stepper Hat Trio
  2. Z180 50MHz with the BusRaider
  3. Marty Learns to Swing – Part 3 Q-Learning
  4. Marty Learns to Swing – Part 2
  5. Marty Learns To Swing – Part 1
  6. What can you do with an RC2014 (+ BusRaider)? Part 1
  7. Say NO to Headless Dogs

2018 8

  1. SpeakUp – WiFi Log-on over Audio
  2. Is Yours a Face that Opens Doors
  3. Raid the Bus and the Speccy Lives!
  4. SandBot Software Revamp
  5. A New SandBot
  6. Galaxy Invasion – 80’s Style
  7. Show me the Money
  8. Not So Droopy SCARA (Robot Arm)

2017 5

  1. A Bigger Delta
  2. Now Printing Multi-colour – But with an Unexpected Degree of Waste
  3. Machine Learning – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  4. Flight Trim
  5. A Line in the Sand

2016 7

  1. MK14 meets 7Bot
  2. Board Anyone?
  3. A Little Logger
  4. Play 2048 with a Robot Arm
  5. Non-Vesting Share Options
  6. Single-Arm Robot
  7. Auto Reminder Watch

2015 10

  1. Central Heating Monitor
  2. Spidey Wall for Real
  3. A Reliable MBED WebServer
  4. Spidey Wall Animation
  5. Spidey Wall PacMan
  6. Spidey Wall
  7. Scara Arm Calculations
  8. Towards a Pancake Printer
  9. Sensing Mains with Mbed/Arduino
  10. Our home heating system sucks!

2014 6

  1. Electricity Meter Question
  2. Home Automation Server #2
  3. Bluetooth Smart Target (Game)
  4. Does a Raspberry Pi need a UPS to avoid SD card corruption?
  5. A PDF Editor for the Simple Stuff – rotate, delete, split and combine
  6. Laser Cut Minecraft Elements in Perspex

2013 8

  1. RFID Front Door Lock using Netduino
  2. .NET Micro Framework Web Server Unreliability
  3. Building a PhoneGap/Cordova Home Automation App
  4. three ajax problems in my Phonegap app
  5. native Android or PhoneGap or PyQt for wall tablet software?
  6. a qt stock ticker
  7. moving my window shades control to MBED
  8. voice command

2012 1

  1. drawing straight lines with a Polargraph

2011 2

  1. polargraph from Sandy Noble
  2. origami circuits