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Welcome to ACKspace; a hackerspace located in Heerlen, The Netherlands.
A hackerspace is a place where people get together, socialize, share knowledge, tinker and build stuff.
In order to make this possible we have a collection of tools, (useful) stuff, work area and a lounge where we can relax and discuss our favorite games.
Welkom bij ACKspace; een hackerspace in Heerlen, Nederland.
Een hackerspace is een plek waar mensen samenkomen, socializen, kennis delen, knutselen en dingen bouwen.
Om dit mogelijk te maken hebben we een verzameling gereedschap, (bruikbaar) spul, een werkruimte en een lounge waar we kunnen ontspannen en onze favoriete spellen kunnen bespreken.
Willkommen bei ACKspace; ein Hackerspace in Heerlen, Niederlande.
Ein Hackerspace ist ein Ort, an dem Menschen zusammenkommen, Sozialisieren, Wissen teilen, Dinge basteln und bauen.
Um dies zu ermöglichen, haben wir eine Sammlung von Tools, (nützliche) Sachen, einen Arbeitsbereich und eine Lounge, wo wir uns entspannen und unsere Lieblingsspiele diskutieren können.
- D&D Adventures (Meeting, 15 July 2022)
- Pizza-meet (Meeting, 1 April 2023)
- ACKsession (Meeting, 29 April 2023)
- Gameathon 2023 (Hackathon, 10 June 2023)
Featured articles:
Gameathon 2023
Gameathon 2023
Always wanted to build your own game or alter an existing one to your own taste? This is the time to do it!
Our goal is to make something playable (and fun!) in just one weekend.
Maybe you would like to make a game for our arcade machine or surface table?
Or design your own pixel art video game?
Or put our 3D printers to good use and create your very own tabletop game?
This weekend is about building your game your way!
ACKsession
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| Featured: | Yes |
| State: | Active |
| Start date: | 24-06-2023 |
| Start time: | 00:00 |
| End date: | 24-06-2023 |
| End time: | 23:59 |
| Contact: | Wolkje |
| Kind: | Meeting |
| Location: | Location::ACKspace |
| URL: | |
| Fee: | Free |
| Short description: | Werken aan een project? You go girl! |
synopsis
Vanaf heden (28-03-2023) is er elke:
- laatste zaterdag tussen 00:00 en 23:59 (de hele dag dus) een hacksessie evenement.
Het is dan de bedoeling om deze paar uurtjes exclusief te gebruiken om aan je project of willekeurige hack te werken, al dan niet als groepje. Gezien de huidige situatie is een virtuele space ingericht on als nog samen te werken zonder fysieke aanwezigheid te hoeven hebben. Je hoeft niet per se mee te doen, maar dit is natuurlijk hét moment om verder te komen met projecten.
- Heb je een idee, maar weet je niet hoe je het kunt uitwerken? Vraag het dan op de mailinglijst, IRC of Telegram groep.
- Kom je een onderdeel te kort? Mail het bestuur.
- Ben je op zoek naar inspiratie? Kijk eens op patches welcome of bij de geparkeerde projecten en voeg jezelf gewoon toe aan je nieuwe favoriete project
- Is iets, maar dan ook iets niet duidelijk? Gewoon vragen!
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De volgende dagen zijn gekozen voor 2023:
- Zaterdag 29 april
- Zaterdag 27 mei
- Zaterdag 24 juni
- Zaterdag 29 juli
- Zaterdag 26 augustus
- Zaterdag 30 september
- Zaterdag 28 oktober
- Zaterdag 25 november
- Zaterdag 23 december - 1 week eerder i.v.m. SYN-ACKnowledge op 30 december
LoRa
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| Featured: | Yes |
| State | Active |
| Members | Xopr, Stuiterveer |
| GitHub | No GitHub project defined. Add your project here. |
| Description | Sonething something Long Range |
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Coming from the WiPhone, it was time to play with LoRa!
Stuff we have to play with
- WiPhone
- Two RFM9x modules with helix antennas (TBD)
- LilyGO TTGO LoRa32 868MHz ESP32
- better antenna (plot)
- OpenMQTTGateway docss
- OpenMQTTGateway repo (for now)
- Andreas Spiess' video on LoRa boards:
- TTGo board properties: emits at 9dBm
- antenna properties: resonance frequency at 780MHz, ~5dB loss (VSWR>=3.3)
Spacestate sensors
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| Featured: | Yes |
| State | Active |
| Members | Xopr |
| GitHub | SpaceAPI-sensors |
| Description | You can't manage what you don't measure |
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This project ties strongly with the MQTT setup (to connect to the SpaceAPI) as it uses Tasmota[1] on ESP devices for feature bang and ease of use.
Note that you're more than welcome to add any sensor (or actuator) that you might see fit for our hackerspace. Think: 3D printer nozzle temperature or filament weight, outside radiation, air quality, motion sensing, window opener and the likes; this project is proof anyone that can handle a screwdriver and PC can do this.
synopsis
Create a modular repository of sensors and outputs to keep an eye on temperatures (and/or other stuff), especially for monitoring the server room, and optionally, the [sl|h|st]ackspace(s), including the space state switch.
intro
After some iterations of the Space state switch and some versions of the Spacestate indicator, some different types of temperature sensors, it was time to make it easy on ourselves: switch to MQTT and use Tasmota[1].
In most cases, an off-the-shelf ESP device will suffice, but since not all devices are not galvanically isolated from mains, it's more practical to use an ESP-12 PCB for things where contacts are bare (like the Space state switch).
Here are the steps to setup such a device
configuring a spacestate sensor from scratch
Most of this (apart from the MQTT configuration) only applies to the Spacestate sensor board (see image); it will setup a pinout template that matches the board.
- Under Configuration, click Configure Other
- Paste this template:
{"NAME":"ACKsensor","GPIO":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,1],"FLAG":0,"BASE":18}and check Activate - Fill in Device Name (
ACKtemporACKstate) and Friendly Name 1 (Space state switchor leave as is) - Save (will reboot)
- Click Configure Module
- Make sure Module type is
ACKsensor (0) - Set functions for GPIO17 (ADC), GPIO16 (Typically
Switch 1orButton 1) and GPIO12 (DS18x20which is connected to 3.3v using ~4k7 pull up) [2] - Save (will reboot again)
- Click Configure MQTT
- Set Host (
192.168.1.42), User (temperatureorspacestate), Password (currently, only xopr knows these passwords), Topic (temperature,switchorspacestate) and Full Topic (ackspace/hackspace/%topic%/%prefix%/) - Save (will reboot yet again)
notes and troubleshooting
GPIO16
Note that this pin is special (it lives on a separate register internally, but more important, its internal pull resistor is to ground (pull-down) [3][4][5]
ADC/GPIO17
Note that the analog in is 0-1V maximum; use a voltage divider to limit its input.[6] and [7]
space state
To read a switch without having a corresponding relay one has to remember the default switch action is TOGGLE, which can be used in traveler-system (hotelschakeling) style: one can turn the light on with switch 1, turn it off with switch 2 (software) and turn it on with switch 1 again while the switch physically is in a different state.
To change the behavior of the switch, use switchmode[8]:
switchmode 1 restart 1
Note that if you need the reverse (switch connects to poweroff), you need switchmode 1.
Also note that restart 1 is needed to store the configuration.
multiple switches on the spacestate sensor
By default, one can use a single switch/button without a relay set. If you want to provide MQTT state for multiple switches without having corresponding relay outputs, you need some rule magic;[9]
Rule1 ON switch1#state DO publish ackspace/hackspace/%topic%/stat/RESULT {"POWER1":"%value%"} ENDON
Rule2 ON switch2#state DO publish ackspace/hackspace/%topic%/stat/RESULT {"POWER2":"%value%"} ENDON
Backlog Rule1 1; Rule2 1
other devices (switches)
Note that the space has a modified sonoff POW (old revision) that allows switching with a regular toggle switch while able to monitor the power usage.
It uses the following template:
{"NAME":"Dangerous POW","GPIO":[32,160,0,0,0,2592,0,0,224,2656,2688,288,0,0],"FLAG":0,"BASE":6}
Note that while the GPIO is 5V relative to GND, it most likely is 225V above earth potential: insulate well and never connect it to your PC.
calibrating POW module
To calibrate a POW module (like in the hackcorner), you need the following[10]:
- Multimeter (for measuring mains voltage)
- Resistive load (higher=better, like the 500W SMD rework station)
Steps:
- monitor mains voltage
- go to the sonoff console tab of the device
- turn on the hot air station and crank up the dial
- input the following (adjust the voltage and current accordingly)
- for current, you use the formula:
P/U*1000= 500/227*1000 = in this case
VoltageSet 227 PowerSet 500 CurrentSet 2202.64 restart 1
recovery
When a device doesn't respond or won't connect to wifi, you might need to trigger recovery mode[11] by:
- power it off for 30 seconds
- power on 7 times with less than 10 second interval
Note that this only works if SetOption65 is 0 (which one would have disabled if brown-outs occur often.
links
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tasmota homepage: https://tasmota.github.io/
- ↑ GPIO-Conversion: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/GPIO-Conversion/
- ↑ Github comment on GPIO16: https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/issues/3263#issuecomment-427155769
- ↑ Usable pins with description: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Peripherals/#usable-pins
- ↑ Boot modes and corresponding pin pulling: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Expanding-Tasmota/#boot-modes
- ↑ Tasmota ADC: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/ADC/
- ↑ calibration/tuning: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Commands/#adcparam
- ↑ Switchmode: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Buttons-and-Switches/#switchmode
- ↑ Distinguish switch 1 and 2 without the use of relay 1 and 2: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Rules/#distinguish-switch1-and-switch2-without-the-use-of-relay1-and-relay2 this rule section
- ↑ Power Monitoring Calibration: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Power-Monitoring-Calibration/
- ↑ Device recovery: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Device-Recovery/
- Visiting address:
- ACKspace
- Kloosterweg 1
- 6412 CN Heerlen
- IRC:ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/ACKspace
- Mail: see the communication page
- Telephone:+31-45-71-12345
