Electronics My Ramps 1.5 setup part II In this part I got the display and hardware programmed to work. So now it is time to get the motor running. The leadshine DM556 driver has only 4 terminals for the steppermotor.
Electronics My Ramps 1.5 setup I wanted to see if I could use the RAMPS board to drive my big-ass stepper motors via my lead shine drivers. So I ordered this cheap-ass ATmeaga2560: With a (also cheap) Ramps
EV Testing my openEVSE on 3 phase I finally took delivery on my Model 3, 2 months late (don't get me started). And ofcourse one of the first things I wanted to try is charging it on my homebrew openEVSE
Development Package my custom Cloud Foundry buildpack for offline use I've made my custom buildpack here but that only works online, I want to make this an offline version. This should be simple, but initially I had some trouble getting started. Turns out
Development Applying self-signed certs to your Cloud Foundry GoRouter So, you've build your own homelab hosted Cloud Foundry environment, but forgot to apply a proper certificate to the gorouter. Let's fix that.. First we need to make a certificate, I'm using self
Development Using environment variables from Cloud Foundry in Angular with the staticfile_buildpack Ofcourse I want to follow the 12 factor app rules as much as possible, and ofcourse I also want to deploy my apps in Cloud Foundry. When it comes to https://12factor.net/
EV Real life testing my openEVSE My friend Quinten stepped by and since he owns a Nissan Leaf this was the perfect opportunity to really test my openEVSE. We set the amps to 16 and plugged in the Nissan:
EV Solving OpenEVSE display bug So.. after boot all seems fine with my openEVSE: But when it starts charging this happens: This comes from this this code: if (curstate == EVSE_STATE_C) { time_t elapsedTime = g_EvseController.GetElapsedChargeTime(
EV Bench testing my openEVSE It is time to bench test my Arduino openEVSE. So I uploaded my version of the firmware onto it and waited for the bootscreen. And sure enough: That looks promising, check the scope
EV Getting OpenEVSE firmware to compile With all the hardware for my openEVSE done, I started focussing on the software part. That is the openEVSE firmware. Because I only need the basic functionality, I started with an old version
EV Guest EV in the workshop My friend Quinten bought a broken down Rebbl New Bettle EV last week. It's parked outside my garage to take the (DC) motor out, it does not run anymore because of worndown brushes.
EV Populating OpenEVSE arduino shield With all components delivered, I started populating my OpenEVSE Arduino Shield. I'm just building these two circuits: one for switching the relay from pin D8: And one for sending the (J1772) +/-12V square
EV Sourcing OpenEVSE components My plan is to build an OpenEVSE charger. I already prepped my cupboard for it, and made an Arduino housing to house it. OpenEVSE started out as a simple opensource charger, but over
Unifi Telfort FTTH with IPTV on Unifi USG I recently switched to a Telfort FTTH subscription. This comes with a default modem/router (Experiabox V10) that is, to say the least, 'limited'. This subscription provides internet as well as IPTV. So
EV Making an Arduino DIN case For my EV charging project (first post here), I will need a DIN case that will fit in my existing enclosure and will hold an Arduino, an Arduino shield, a LCD and a
EV Prepping the electrical cupboard So, it is ordered, my first EV daily driver (a Tesla Model 3). And I'm prepping for it. I want to be able to charge it at home if I need to, so
Unifi Re-use DSM Lets Encrypt certificate for Unifi Controller running in Docker In my new Unifi network I'm running the Unifi Controller in a Docker container on my Synology NAS, see here.The only thing missing is a proper certificate for it, let's fix that.
Unifi Running the Unifi controller on DSM With my new Unifi setup comes the ability to run the Unifi controller to monitor and configure my network. Unifi has created a device for that: the Unifi Cloud key, which costs about
Unifi Static dns record in unifi USG I'm in the process of migrating my entire network setup to an Unifi network. For this purpose I've bought an Unifi USG, S8-60W and two access points. My incoming internet (and IPTV) is
Blazor Mixing Blazor and MVC pages in one app So, you have this MVC app that you want to convert to Blazor. But you can't do this in one big bang, simply because it's too much work. One approach would be to
Blazor Blazor custom component with two way databinding This article is written for blazor 0.4. The things here are most certainly to change in the future. Blazor is all about components, so the first thing to try is create your
diy Expanding solar panel installation So, I've owned solar panels for quite a while now. 16 of them combined with Enphase microinverters, and this is performing nice, thanks to the current financial compensation regulation I'm not paying a
Blazor Material button as blazor component The material components MDC are pretty slick, so I want to use them in combination with blazor. Since blazor 0.3 this is possible with the ref keyword on a html tag. First
diy Dorsoduro license plate holder mod I own an Aprilia Dorsoduro 750, and I love it. It is the same fun as the Yamaha R1 that I owned previously. One thing I don't like about it the location of