Hilo90mhz – Page 2 – Electronics and other complex systems of interest to Chester Lowrey

Samsung 960 Evo 1TB SSD Review and testing results on X99 MB with 6800K CPU

These new NVME PCIe SSDs have some amazing speeds (3,200MB/s!!!), the interface is x4 standard PCIe lanes. The Samsung 960 […]

ComputersPosted on: 2016-12-202016-12-22

Setting up Heroes Of Might and Magic 3 HOMM3 + HOTA + HD mod

Instructions for setup of HOMM3-Heroes of Might and Magic III with the HD addon and the HOTA – Horn of […]

GamingPosted on: 2016-12-15

Corel Draw Offset Line from Object for Laser Cutting

>Effects > Contour Tool Choose Outside or Inside depending on where you want the offset Choose Offset distance Choose one […]

Official Amazon Fire ADB Driver Download – from amazon directly

This text explains the driver and contains the link I re-posted lower down: https://developer.amazon.com/public/resources/development-tools/ide-tools/tech-docs/05-setting-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing Direct link to driver provided […]

ComputersPosted on: 2016-12-05

Which is the fastest Arduino – ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino Uno, Arduino 101 +Others Speed Test Comparison Chart

This started because I was interested in how the new ESP32 compared against other common Arduino compatible development boards. Source code […]

Arduino , ESP32 , ESP8266Posted on: 2016-12-012017-12-27

Micropython IDE options

uPyIDE http://pythontutor.com/ – not an IDE but great tools to visualize how code is executed http://espcut.com/ – IDE for ESP8266 NodeMCU, Lua and […]

Computers , ProgrammingPosted on: 2016-11-072016-12-03

SSD1306 64×32 Pixel .49″ OLED ER-OLED0.49-1W

I have modified the Adafruit SSD1306 library to work with the smaller 64×32 OLED Displays that can be purchased here and […]

Arduino , ElectronicsPosted on: 2016-10-102016-12-17

Plastic Case 85x58x33mm KH-F19 Dimensions

These 85x58x33mm cases can be inexpensively sourced from many locations. However I could find no data on the hole layout […]

Electronics , Power Monitor , Power MonitoringPosted on: 2016-10-062016-12-01

Testing ST7735 128*160 SPI TFT Display

I’d say it works well 🙂 very happy, using the ucglib graphics library. It has advantages compared to the adafruit […]

Electronics , Power MonitoringPosted on: 2016-10-042016-10-04

Lightning Arresters, MOVs, Surge Suppression

The following are large 3 lead MOV’s that include a thermal fuse – this fuse will prevent thermal runaway on […]

Energy , Power MonitoringPosted on: 2016-10-022016-10-02

Previous Plastic – DIY plastic recycling into new things

3D PrintingPosted on: 2016-10-022016-10-04

Testing Current Transformers

V1 120.55 V1 avg 120.51 CT1 A 3.72 CT1 VA 448.61 CT1 W 357.18 avg 343.68 CT2 A 3.68 CT2 […]

Energy , ESP8266 , Power MonitoringPosted on: 2016-10-022016-10-03

The Art Of PrtScn

Computers , EntertainmentPosted on: 2016-09-262016-09-26

Installing Lets Encrypt SSL cert through Virtualmin

This guide seemed to work well and the cert is live on sciencefactoryhawaii.com – will see in 2 months if […]

VPS , WebdevPosted on: 2016-09-242016-09-24

LaserCAD does not bind to correct network interface

LaserCAD using the network interface is a great way to communicate with your laser cutter. Unfortunately the program seems to […]

Computers , Laser Cutter , ToolsPosted on: 2016-09-082016-09-22