Archive for April 2018

A Quick Look at the M5Stack ESP32 Development Kit

April 30, 2018, 9:36 pm

I recently received an M5Stack ESP32 development kit from Banggood. Although I have not used any ESP32 based development boards before, I have heard many good things about the ESP32 platform, especially for its rich feature set and versatile connectivity. After all, it was designed to have IoT applications in mind. So I was pretty excited to take it for a spin. Continue reading ‘A Quick Look at the M5Stack ESP32 Development Kit’ »

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Teardown of an EcoSmart 60W Dimmable G16.5 LED Bulb

April 9, 2018, 6:17 pm

Although LED light bulbs have been around for a while, I have not been able to totally replace all my lights in the house to LED ones until quite recently. The main reason is that some of my existing light fixtures only take G16.5 style bulbs with E12 screws and higher wattage LED bulbs of this kind only became available until quite recently. Continue reading ‘Teardown of an EcoSmart 60W Dimmable G16.5 LED Bulb’ »

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