September 9, 2019

Getting PCBs in Europe

There are a few traps when ordering PCBs from China in the EU. Here are some tips.

August 28, 2019

Your Arduino SAMD21 ADC is wrong: did you notice?

A 4-year old bug in the SAMD21 analogRead() function provides you incorrect results

July 10, 2019

Automated plant watering with CAN bus

Using the NoCAN IoT platform to water your plants in the garden

April 29, 2019

Exploring pluggable discovery in Arduino

A technical look a the pluggable discovery feature added in Arduino 1.8.9

April 25, 2019

Uploading NoCAN sketches directly from the Arduino IDE

A new trick in the Arduino IDE 1.8.9 makes writing NoCAN sketches even easier than before.

April 5, 2019

Is the Seeed Studio Grove connector compatible with the JST PH connector?

Unfortunately not, as we found out.

March 18, 2019

Adding an RTC to NoCAN for free

Any CANZERO node in your NOCAN network can become a realtime clock!

March 7, 2019

NoCAN gets a web interface!

Control an army of Arduino-compatible nodes with a web interface.

February 19, 2019

NoCAN powered graphics

Connecting a CANZERO to Adafruit RA8875 graphics driver board connected to a 7 inch 800x480 TFT display

January 21, 2019

PIR sensor tutorial for NoCAN

Creating more documentation and examples for the NoCAN IoT platform.

January 4, 2019

What's coming in 2019?

Tell us what we should make this year!

December 6, 2018

Lessons from a hardware kickstarter

Getting funded is only the beginning.

June 18, 2018

We are launching our Kickstarter campaign on Monday, June 18, 2018.

Get a chance to discover NoCAN, the new wired IoT platform for makers.

May 15, 2018

Connecting our NoCAN weather station to the Internet

Use your smartphone with 'blynk' to connect your NoCAN IoT network to the internet.

May 7, 2018

Create your weather station with a NoCAN network

Get the realtime temperature, humidity and barometric pressure data with a connected BME280 Atmospheric Sensor in your garden

April 26, 2018

The NoCAN IoT platform is finally here!

A wired IoT platform for makers based on CAN bus.

March 23, 2018

Tip: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ stuck on a rainbow pattern after boot?

You probably need to update the boot code on your SD card

February 27, 2018

Adding a DC power jack to the Raspberry-Pi (updated)

Power your Pi from 6V to 28V with a small switching regulator

December 1, 2017

The Omzlo platform is at Maker Faire Rome 2017

Building a wired IoT platform for makers (Arduino-compatible)

November 13, 2017

Our CAN-bus IoT network successfully tested over 1000 feet / 305 meters!

The Omzlo platform can take you to places that Wifi can't reach.

November 13, 2017

Adding a DC power jack to the Raspberry-Pi

Power your Pi from 7V to 28V with a small switching regulator

October 6, 2017

Programming the SAMD21 using Atmel ICE with OpenOCD (updated)

Work from the command line on OS X or Linux, without Atmel Studio or Eclipse -- Updated article.

August 31, 2017

A Raspberry Pi CAN-bus HAT for the Omzlo IoT platform

A look at the design and implementation of our first prototype

July 12, 2017

Taking pictures of PCBs

Good pictures of electronic circuits in 7 steps.

July 6, 2017

Back to "skware" one

Re-thinking the Omzlo One project after failing our kickstarter

June 19, 2017

Using an external 16Mhz crystal on the Atmega328PB

The latest Atmega328PB removes the full-swing crystal driver, but using a 16Mhz crystal works fine.

May 22, 2017

Programming the SAMD21 using Atmel ICE with OpenOCD

Work from the command line on OS X or Linux, without Atmel Studio or Eclipse.

March 6, 2017

How the Omzlo platform started

I wanted to put a network of sensors in my garden...