Use Visual Studio Code for Arduino

VSCode has an Arduino plugin available in preview. Use it. Put your Arduino desktop application in cold-storage. Comparing the two is like comparing a beaver with a 2 ton backhoe.

The Best LoRa Settings for Range and Reliability

How to Program an ESP32 in Arduino while using ESP-IDF functions

Testing LoRa Antennas at 915MHz

I’ve been working on LoRa systems and really wanted to find a ‘best of breed’ antenna to use. So, I found an inexpensive but accurate antenna tester and rounded up a bunch of antennas.

How to Build a Hot Plate Reflow Oven

I’ve been building surface mount circuit boards by hand with a hot air gun. It is slow…

A Non-blocking Wait for Event or Timeout in C#

We often want to wait for an Event in a thread while letting other stuff proceed. Or … delay a method in the UI thread while letting stuff update.

Testing Antennas with the LimeSDR Mini

I recently bought a LimeSDR Mini to test antennas and those little transceivers. As usual there are some startup hurdles so I thought I’d document my voyage to turning it into an antenna analyzer.

Using Segger Studio, Nordic SDK and Arduino with Particle Xenon

How to send email with a Raspberry PI via GMail

Answer

Before getting into the history. I ended up using Python3 and the smtplib library. Quick, simple, and reliable.