Written by Bastian Raschke.
Published 2018-09-17 in the category Smart Home.
When i planned the second generation of my electric cruiserboard, i researched a lot and looked also for commercial examples for electric boards. I found the "Cool & Fun Electric Skateboard" incredible cheap on Amazon for around 200€ only. I bought the board and made a teardown from it to show how much quality you get for this price...
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Written by Bastian Raschke.
Published 2018-05-20 in the category Smart Home.
The AsysBus software was developed by Florian Knodt and was originally derived from a software called iSysBus. Basically the AsysBus is a firmware for AVR devices (e.g. the Arduino platform) to create a cheap and robust classic bus network for embedded devices. The communication is realized via CAN bus that is mostly popular in automotive industry. So you can easily create cheap nodes to control lights, RGB(W) light strips, wall buttons or any other possible device to interact with your smart home.
But without integration of my other smart home components (e.g. my Philips Hues) that system would not make a lot sense for me. So i created a component to use AsysBus in the popular smart home software Home Assistant.
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Written by Bastian Raschke.
Published 2018-05-15 in the category Skateboard.
My previous Pennyboard project worked quiet well. But it was not perfect, so i finally build a complete new board:
I liked my previous Ridge mini cruiser pretty well. It was lightweight, small and looked amazing with the underglow LED light. But the quality of the board itself was not perfect (especially the trucks, wheels and the bearings). Okay for a price of around 50€ it was pretty amazing but i wanted a bit better...
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Written by Bastian Raschke.
Published 2018-04-15 in the category Smart Home.
When i moved to my new apartment, i bought a lot of new things to feel comfortable in my new home. But for my bathroom i got an old mirror from my parents for free. The raw mirror looked a bit unimpressive. So i pimped it to a nice looking design LED mirror which is also compatible with the Ikea Tradfri smart light system.
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Written by Bastian Raschke.
Published 2017-04-16 in the category Skateboard.
When i took my pennyboard with me, people often saw the technical upgrade under the board and asked me if the board has a motor. I always had to answer No, it has only light and Wi-Fi - but these comments challenged me... Additionally Nils motivated me that i need an electric board for sure. So i started to build one.
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