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DIY Smart Doorbell with LCD

DIY Smart Doorbell with LCD

In the age of smart homes and DIY electronics, creating a personalized smart doorbell can be a rewarding project that combines functionality and creativity. In this blog post, I will show the process of building this smart doorbell using a 16x2 LCD, a 3D printed enclosure, and some nifty home

DIY Loadshedding Lights

DIY Loadshedding Lights

Since loadshedding is here to stay, and installing solar and battery backups on the house is just way out of most people budgets. I decided to make my own affordable diy system to have lights during power outages. Better than having rechargable laps to carry around the house, I opted

Useful 3D Printing

3D Printing is great, you can print all types of gadgets, models, toys almost anything. I prefer the useful or functional prints. Most things you need to print can be found on Thingiverse but sometimes you just need to create something a little more custom to your needs. My tools

Baby Room Makeover

In eager anticipation, awaiting the arrival of royalty. Fit for a queen, these living quarters will be. Some exciting stuff happening at home, A few weekends of painting and preparing a room for a little one. Some paint and some bedding, some furniture too Just a few of things we

Floating Display Shelf

As of now this is no a smart device, but as usual, I can not create a project without adding LED's to it. In this case I have not added RGB LED's, but just plain white. This is just a nice display shelf I made our

DIY Floating TV Cabinet

Creating things out of wood is one of my favourite hobbies, as you can see in my diy desk with built in LED [https://blog.abugslife.co.za/diy-home-office-desk/]. This project I made is a wall mounted TV cabinet for my living room. The smart feature of this is again

Diy Home Office Desk

With world that changed in 2020 and most people working from home, I needed to create a work space I could enjoy as I would spend a lot of my time there. After March 2020, I decided to convert one room into an office, which needed custom furniture. I have