The Rock T20 is a travel socket with a difference (check the link – as Steve below in the comments says this is now discontinued on the Banggood site even days after I received mine – a shame as it is nice and they don’t seem to have anything similar…
ESCAM QF288 1080p WiFi IP Camera
Reader Paul Richarson wrote a comment in an earlier camera blog of mine which triggered me to get hold of an ESCAM QF288 1080P WiFi IP Camera from Banggood as he suspected the camera is 3* optical zoom, not 8* optical zoom…. and he’s right – the ads claim 8x…
Huawei Band 6 v Xiaomi Mi Band 6
Too early to do a review – it seems that AliExpress will have the new Huawei Band 6 (GLOBAL) this week to I’m guessing that means we outside of China won’t be able to actually get one for maybe 3 weeks – and I’ve seen nothing yet about the Xiaomi…
Seeed WIO Terminal and Battery Pack
Some time ago I received a Wio terminal from Seeed and I remember thinking “great, finally a decent colour display system, cased, with decent IO capability – but why didn’t they put a battery in it?”. Well, now they have – or rather they have brought out a plug-in battery…
The CRICKET from ThingsOnEdge.COM
Of course we’ve all seen this form factor before – ESP8266 on a board with power and antenna, FLASH etc.. The ESP-12 is only one of many and now we have a new option – with a difference… also – this is an update of my late-2020 original blog. And…
SQLITE3 Raspberry Pi Problems and Solutions?
This is the April 13, 2021 update of an old, outstanding problem for Raspberry Pi owners who use and regularly upgrade Node-Red and who simultaneously use the Node-Red SQLITE node. The issue has also been known to affect the serial port and i2c when upgrading Node-Red. I KNOW I’m not…
Mobile Hotspot thoughts and discussion
Until recently, doing away with my broadband supplier was an impossibility – and it may well still be impractical but I’m investigating possibilities – feedback is most welcome. So, to start the ball rolling, here in rural Southern Spain where we have NO landlines on the outskirts of our village…
88VF Max Lithium One-Hand Chainsaw
The exact unit I’m going to refer to is currently sold out but this Banggood link shows several similar chainsaws and includes an identical model. This is a cute gadget. Now I should point out that unlike larger models, this 88VF Electric Saw Cordless One-Hand Chain Saw (see link higher…
Flsun® Q5 3D Printer Kit – Easy-Peasy
The FLSun Q5 printer kit from Banggood sounds on the surface like an all-day project (but it isn’t). If you have already assembled an SLA 3D printer, depending on your skill levels, you may know that this can be a treacherous task, which is one reason my first Tevo Tarantula…
Tasmota upgrade inconsistencies ?
I wonder if any Tasmota fans out there have any thoughts on something I’ve pondered many times but never put into print until now? So… I just updated a smartbulb from Tasmota dev version v9.3.0.1 to v9.3.1.2 using the web OTA. My screen showed the usual OTA lag after the…
ET8134 4.7-inch Large LCD Screen Smart True RMS Digital Multimeter
Last week, I got an ET8134 4.7-inch Large LCD Screen Smart True RMS Digital Multimeter in the post. I’ve not had a new meter in a while so I was quite interested to open this up – having seen the ads. For reasons which will be obvious when you see…
LIVEN G-5 Smart Oil-free Hot Air Fryer
The LIVEN G-5 Smart Oil-free Air Fryer which arrived from Banggood is interesting for several reasons – some of them nothing to do with cooking. Why use an air-fryer at all? Well, convenience, health, safety? Will that do for starters? Any why this one? This nice-looking hot air fryer came…
Anycubic Photon Mono 3D Printer Revisited
The Anycubic® Photon Mono 2K High Speed Resin 3D Printer certainly has possibilities – but unlike my Crealty LD-002R who’s operation was immediately obvious and which works very well, the starting point with the Anycubic back in November 2020 suggested I had a faulty unit – as I develop this…
Eleksmaker A3 Pro 3500mW Laser Engraver
The A3 Pro is looking like it’s going to be a MARVELOUS engraver. Some of you may recall back in 2018 I wrote about the original Eleksmaker Pro engraver – it came with a 400mW laser module which was rapidly replaced with a 2300mW laser and very nice too. I…
And Now – The Poco M3
Regular readers know I’m a Pocophone fanatic – best mid-range phones around – I started with the Pocophone F1 and only moved it on when the Pocophone X3 came out – the latter is in daily use – I LOVE it. Now, no-one is suggesting that the newer M3 will…
The Itead Journey Continues
I’ve had the latest Zigbee dongle from Itead for a while but it was embargoed until release – I note that CNX was quick off the mark to announce this – anyway here it is.. version 3.0 of their incredibly cheap Zigbee dongle featuring Silicon Labs EFR32MG21 MCU (like we…
PC Upgrades – Studio Lighting – and about time
I’ve had my DELL desktop PC for some years now – originally kitted out with a pair of 1TB hard disks and 8GB RAM as well as an Intel I7 processor. The unit came complete with 6 USB2 sockets and only two USB3 sockets, neither of which can supply significant…
Blitzwolf BW-CMM2 Espresso Maker
The first of two household gadgets I’ve received this week – an Espresso-maker is not the kind of thing I normally write about (and to be fair there’s not much you can say about a coffee maker) but I like Blitzwolf products, I don’t think I’ve had anything from them…
Bakeey 100W Model X9 8-Port USB PD Charger
Is this Bakeey charger/USB-supply neat or WHAT! I don’t know about you guys but I am CONSTANTLY rinning out of chargers and places to store chargers – I always need MORE power and that means MORE spare power sockets and more bench space. So, to say that I was excited…
K7 Double Spout Humidifier with 3.3L Capacity Tank
Banggood recently sent me this large capacity K7 humidifier – both my wife and I suffer from dry throats at night and the smaller humidifiers – nice as some of them are, just don’t put out enough vapour nor do most of them last all night. K7 to the rescue.…