Conejo Valley Makerspace is named for the Conejo Valley, a general region including Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Lake Sherwood, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, and Moorpark. Conejo is the Spanish word for rabbit. And this area has a lot of desert cottontail bunnies. I mean, Thousand Rabbits, Rabbit Hills, Lake Rabbit… Those names would all […]
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This 110v smart outlet has a small ESP8266 microcontroller that can be reflashed with open source smart home software. We took one apart and will be flashing it soon to eliminate its cloud dependency. The ESP module has convenient test points for the reflash process. The hot or live side of the smart outlet is […]