Electronics

ESP32 builds, Home Assistant screens and lighting projects, documented as they were built.
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Building a Christmas Lighting Node: 24 Volts, 500 Pixels and a Lot of Measuring
How I built a serviceable outdoor Christmas light controller around WLED, measured real voltage drop instead…
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Building a Home Assistant Touch Dashboard on an Elecrow 5-Inch ESP32-S3 Panel
How I turned a troublesome Elecrow CrowPanel 5″ into a reliable Home Assistant control screen with…
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When the SD Reader Dies: Moving Home Assistant to NVMe and Restoring a Real Backup
My Home Assistant Pi started throwing SD errors. Two cards failed the same way, so the…
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Adding a 3D Printer to a Home Touchscreen Without Inventing Data
How I put a Bambu Lab P1S and its AMS on a Home Assistant touchscreen: what…
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Re-purposing a Reader Board as a WLED Office Sign
How I flashed WLED onto a retired 32×8 LED reader board, got the matrix layout right,…
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JRHome: Building a Home Platform That Only Shows What It Knows
JRHome didn’t start as a platform. It’s a Raspberry Pi, a custom 10.1-inch touchscreen, ESP32 field…