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EAGLE useful tips

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Eagle is a pretty useful piece of software for designing circuit schematics and PCBs.  I don't use it often enough to get really good at it however, and there are certain things in Eagle that I find myself having to "google" every time I want to do it!  So without further ado, this is my growing list of Eagle tips, in no particular order:

ATtiny Mario handset

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This is part 2 of my ATtiny Mario project - part one is here  -  a Mario-type game I made for the ATtiny85 AVR as a fun way of learning about the chip.  After writing the software, I decided I wanted a nice housing for the mass of wires on my breadboards and thought it would cool to put it into a NES-style controller, which is what this post will discuss.

ESP8266 low power DHT11 temperature and moisture remote sensor

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I have a problem with moisture in my loft.  After planning some intervention, I wanted a way to remotely monitor the humidity and temperature up there, and to visualise the data on a server.