bathroom scale
If you've decided to make the Tip the Balance Bathroom Scale, you won't find instructions here! (If you insist on making it, you can find the code here.) This post, on the other hand, will tell you how to make a working bathroom scale. List of
ESP8266
LoRa is relatively new in IoT. (Actually, not that new, but it's taking time to percolate into the ecosphere.) For those that don't know, LoRa stands for "Long Range." We all know the problem of putting a great little sensor at the foot of
ESP8266
A few months before Christmas, social media channels start filling with instructions about LEDs for home decoration. Popular software is WLED, a program that describes itself as: A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812) LEDs or also SPI based chipsets like
esp32
As I've mentioned so many times in my blog posts, I've never studied electronics or engineering. Consequently, I come at my projects entirely as an amateur - which means that when I finally figure out how to do something, I'm able to guide others
ESP8266
Most of us use a phone app to see the temperature outside - which is fine if you don't mind receiving a reading from a sensor located at a meteorological station somewhere nearby. And when we finally do set up our own IoT sensors, to see them, we
Cricket
Update November 2022 - it seems that ThingsonEdge didn't make it and the cricket is no longer available. Their web and social media presence have disappeared from the internet. Anyone with Version 2 can still update its firmware, but Version 1 - which updated from the ThingsonEdge server
node red
Like most makers, my home is automated - not with off-the-shelf IoT devices, but with home-built switches and relays, Raspberry Pis and ESPs. My first remote switches - all controlled through ESP8266 01s- were mostly built with Blynk. I'd contentedly call up the app on my phone and
ESP8266
My last post was about the Cricket ESP8266 board, a tiny device that lets you run an ESP8266 for months on a single AA battery. In my Facebook post about that article, one of the commenters was Guy Sheffer who writes the Guysoft blog. I'd heard of Guy
ESP8266
A chance encounter on a Facebook group brought me - literally - to the Edge. I read a post in which someone mentioned the ThingsonEdge "Cricket" board. A plethora of hostile comments followed. Everyone said it was too expensive, wasn't sufficiently capable, or superfluous in today&
IOT
A couple of months ago I posted a project to build a router-restarter with an simple ESP8266 and a relay. The post proved to be very popular - but many people disapproved of the technique. Most of the project critics live in advanced countries with sophisticated internet infrastructure and they
router
The weakest link of our digital lives at home is the pipe into our house and the device it's attached to. Our cable-modem allows our equipment to communicate with the outside world. Like all computers, modems are prone to crashing; some of us need to restart at least
ESP8266
As always, before I begin my description, I'd like to give credit to the original creators of this project. It's called Ka-Radio and there's an instructable here, Hackaday here, and GitHub here. The Instructable/Hackaday try their best to explain how to make the