More thank-you’s to donators

February 16, 2018 XTronical 0

There have been a few donations lately to the web-site, which is fantastic, it enables me to fund the hosting independently. At the moment the donations combined with the Adsense adverts nearly cover hosting costs. Which is amazing for the site and in recently weeks the number of page hits […]

Supporting Video: ESP32 Talking!

February 5, 2018 XTronical 0

Supporting video for the article on getting your ESP32 to playback WAV files/ digital sound. This video covers what’s in the article as well as explaining how to add your own WAV’s.

Making your ESP32 talk!

February 1, 2018 XTronical 0

In this article we will make the ESP32 play wav files/ digitised sound through it’s DAC. A library is available to download on this page to allow you to simply play your files whilst your main code still runs, i.e. sound plays independently of your main program.

Supporting Video: DAC’s on ESP32

January 21, 2018 XTronical 0

Supporting the article just below, there is now an accompanying video going through using DAC’s, producing sound and explaining the schematic to build the circuit yourself.

DOIT ESP32S Dev module with Arduino IDE

January 11, 2018 XTronical 0

There is a full article on using the NodeMCU 32S Dev module with the Arduino IDE here and in fact having tested the DOIT 32S I can confirm that this article can be used with this module with no modifications. Just follow the instructions there and you should be up […]

Supporting Video: Frogger Ep. 3 & 4

January 9, 2018 XTronical 0

A video is available supporting Frogger on ESP32 (articles 3 & 4), showing the controller pad circuit diagram, build and collision detection. Just click the title of this post or the image to the left to view. Use the projects menu above to view the actual articles.

Frogger Article 4

January 6, 2018 XTronical 0

Latest write up and code available for Frogger. This covers frog animation and collision detection. You can now try to get your Frog Home! This is probably 80% of the project completed.

Video: Scavenging a PVR for parts

January 5, 2018 XTronical 0

In this first episode in what will be an occasional and on-going series I strip down and scavenge a Humax 9510T PVR for spare parts, what will I find?!!? Click the thumbnail or title above to go to the video.

ESP32 Frogger Update

December 31, 2017 XTronical 0

The Frogger project is making good progress and it’s looking like there will only be another 3 – 4 articles in this series. The next should be released in around a weeks time and will contain all of the essential game-play. Leaving only differing level difficulty, scoring, sound and demo/splash […]