This category will hold everything DIY related.
In this video I’m gonna show you how to solder through hole parts. I’m gonna take you step by step through the procedure as well as give you several tips & tricks that should bring your soldering skills to a new level.
Links for all the tools and parts shown in this video are placed in the video description.
Today I’m gonna show you how I installed a bltouch sensor on my creality CR10 3d printer. But first to give you a bit of info, if you are a frequent viewer of the channel than you know I have tried a bunch of different sensors, inductive, capacitive but they either didn’t have enough sensing distance to cover the glass I’m using on top of the aluminium bed or they weren’t giving me repeatable results so they all ended up disconnected.
I had a bunch of adhesion problems because I couldn’t level the bed properly, my bed doesn’t look very good, in fact I’m gonna overlay a picture of my bed after the auto bed leveling has been installed and you’ll see it’s far from being flat so it was really difficult for me to print something that was bigger than a couple of cm’s because the bed wasn’t flat.
Then I found this bltouch sensor or more correctly a clone of the bltouch sensor on aliexpress for just $14 and I said why not, let’s try this one as well and ordered one. And boy was I impressed how much better the printing got after installing it.
Hello and welcome to this weekend update. This will be just a short video where I’m going to show you the stuff I’m working on lately.
Welcome to a new Voltlog today we are taking a closer look at this inexpensive speech synthesis module. The part number is XFS5152CE and we do find a datasheet for this chip but unfortunately it is all in Chinese. The datasheet contains schematic examples, they show you how to wire a microphone pre-amp, how to wire an audio amplifier, they also give you some code examples but most of the text is in Chinese.
I found this online doc translator service which worked surprisingly well, it translated my document and kept most of the formatting intact. So now I have a translated datasheet which I will link in the description below and I will also place a link to places where you can buy this module and also where you can buy just the chip.
Just a quick weekend update, a few words about a tindie shop and a few words about adding the bltouch sensor to my creality cr10.
In this video I’m gonna show you 3 methods to solder SMD parts but before we get to the actual methods I think it’s best to talk about the type of solder to be used. And there are two main types of solder that you can use, that is leaded or lead free solder. If you are doing prototype work it’s best to stick with leaded solder or solder paste because it’s easier to get right, it has a lower melting temperature. If you are doing production work, you plan to sell those boards, than you might be forced to use lead free solder to be compliant with the regulation.
Here are links to the items shown in this video:
In this video I explain how I made the Raspberry CryptoPI board used in the 2018 April fools joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvuUcgOdop8
If you haven’t seen the original video here it is:
In this video I am testing four different proximity sensors over the glass bed of my Creality CR10 3d printer.
Get the Creality CR10 3D printer from these places: Amazon, Aliexpress, or Banggood.
In this video I’m gonna show you how I build my own Trezor hardware wallet. If you would like to support the voltlog channel checkout the donations page where you will find my paypal address or different crypto wallet addresses.
If you encounter this error while trying to compile trezor firmware:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "nem_mosaics.py", line 6, in <module> from google.protobuf import json_format ImportError: cannot import name json_format Makefile:121: recipe for target 'nem_mosaics.h' failed make: *** [nem_mosaics.h] Error 1
It can be fixed by installing googleapis-common-protos package like this:
sudo pip install googleapis-common-protos
This fix was posted in the comments section by a viewer, I verified and it works.
In this video we are taking a closer look at the bigclown kit I received recently. I will be installing their toolchain and building my first IOT project that will collect and show data using grafana.
Here is a link to the BigClown website.