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Monitor your Raspberry enclosure

A small gadget to monitor the power supply and enclosure temperature of your Raspberry.

My Raspberry Pi server host a OpenVPN service, Onion Pi Tor proxy access point, and EasyIOT.

The power supply come from a old Pc, and the enclosure from a plexi-glass slab.

It’s based on Arduino, so there is no schematic, sketch is available here, it’s just a Atmega328P with a DS1820 temperature sensor,
analoginput A0 is used to monitor Vcc power supply through a voltage divider.
I2C interface for LCD2x16 is wired to A4/A5 pin. You will need <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>, <OneWire.h> libraries.

You can defined the threshold in the code, to monitor Vcc value, more or less than 5 volts for example, that the same for temperature.

Alert will be displayed on the screen, also a digitalwrite() (choice what pin you want), can drive a fanless, LED, relay to off the power-supply, or drive a Raspberry  I/O pin (emergency power-off, email alert …)

Gerber file available

Si4703 small simple FM radio with Arduino

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Again, a FM radio project based on Si4703 breakout board with Arduino, for your bench-work, bathroom … you can listen your programmed favorites radio station, build’s very simple, The breakout provides access to SDIO and SCLK for I2C communication while RST can be used for easy resetting. I use Arduino 3.3v@8Mhz, audio output is wired to Mini PAM8403 5V 2Channel USB Power Audio Amplifier with volume Control board, (1$ on ebay), a simple push button is dedicated to change station quickly by a simple « press », Continuer la lecture de Si4703 small simple FM radio with Arduino

Revive an old garden lamp with a solar panel

lampeThis is an easy way to power an highly brightness LED for 10 hours, some parts are recycled or was buy from ebay for 1$ or less …

– Solar panel 5v – 0.5A (ebay)
– 5V Mini USB 1A TP4056 Lithium Battery Charging Board (ebay)
– LM2596 DCDC Converter (ebay or dx.com)
– A Li-On 3.7V batteries (recycled from old phone)
– A photo-resistor, 10k pot meter, 1K resistor pull down, highly brightness 10mm LED (white warm), cables, and small box…
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