ILI9341 TFT LCD to ESP32 – Full HOW TO

April 28, 2020 XTronical 33

The ILI9341 is a great display, fast, cheap and most modules for hobbyists come with an on-board SD Card reader and built in touch screen – marvellous! But getting all these things working, especially with the ESP32 has sometimes been a little hit and miss – if you trawl the […]

Data Logging (Temperature) on Arduino

April 6, 2020 XTronical 0

In this video and article we look at how to log temperature (you could expand this for other sensors you may have) onto an SD card in a format suitable for direct opening in Excel (and probably open office too or other available packages). Here’s the video, the circuit diagram […]

Quickie: SD Cards with Arduino

April 6, 2020 XTronical 0

A video with everything you need to know has been published below, the circuit diagram (if you need it) is at the bottom of the article which ises the connections used in the video. SD cards are incredibly cheap (around the price of a normal size chocolate bar), yet for […]

Quickie: Using PIR sensors with Arduino

March 12, 2020 XTronical 0

The video covers using PIR (Passive InfraRed) sensors with an Arduino. These are simple movement sensors and although libraries are available they are not required to work with these devices. The sample code shown in the video is shown below.

Fake Lego “M” Motor versus Real Lego Motor

March 8, 2020 XTronical 0

Which is better? Fake Lego Motor or Real Lego Motor – Let’s find out. Power Functions “M” class. Let’s find out which is better, fake lego “M” motors or real? In this video I go through a series of tests to find out

Review of 2019

January 12, 2020 XTronical 0

My humble review of 2019, showing favourite/popular/ unpopular videos. Nothing else to be said!

ESP32 Weather forecast

December 31, 2019 XTronical 0

This project will allow an ESP32 to access online weather forecasts for display on an E-Paper display, running on batteries with an always on display. Cheap Lithium Ion batteries will give around 1.5 to 2 weeks service, better quality or better capacity will give you potentially several weeks. The video […]