RevK^®'s ramblings

The good news is I now have the "proper" PCBs for my door controller and NFC reader... I have to say they look good - proper board...

My latest project is to make something battery powered, based on an ESP32 processor. The ESP32 data sheet claims it can go down to under 1uA...

It has been a month since I came up with this crazy idea, but the NFC reader board is working really well now. To be fair, every version I h...

My soldering is not bad, but there are limits, and I am reaching them with the smaller and smaller components I am trying to use. Not only a...

As you will have read, I decided to trying and tackle making an NFC reader. It is my first project in any sort of RF, so a massive learning ...

I got a cheap reflow oven off Amazon. Seems to work, but I am no expert, and there is some advice on the internet about some tweaks and impr...

As per my earlier blog post, I wondered if I could make a NFC card reader... Well, I have! Tinkering I am in a lucky position in many ways -...

I am sure we have all had tooth ache. I rarely have to see a dentist and rarely have tooth ache, but, well, I do now, and the delay in getti...

This is mainly about bridging some of the "trendy apply shit" and "command line forever" types of working for home autom...

In case you did not know, What Three Words is a system that assigns three words to a location in the world within a few metres. What is the ...