I recently discovered the Node Red tool and almost immediately fell in love. I was about to write something like that myself when I found out about it and so far it does everything the way I would expect it: you could call it if-this-than-that …
Since I learned how to create pictures and display them on these wonderful OLED displays I wanted to build something useful with it. Once you know about all the pieces, putting them together is quite easy. The icon, temperature and humidity are updated every 10 minutes …
Do you know these wonderfully cheap SSD1306 based OLED displays with the crispy display? For a while now the NodeMCU Lua firmware for the ESP8266 supports them and has a rich feature set to draw lines, circles and even bitmaps. One way to draw bitmaps …
Fritzing is a nice tool to quickly draw up your breadboard circuits. From there you can easily and for a competitive price order PCBs. But Fritzing is only fun when you have all the parts that you use in your project. For me the NodeMCU …
My colleague Marcel recently developed a web based tool that lets you choose the modules which will be compiled into the NodeMCU build. This saves you the trouble to setup your own build server with tool chain and can save you a lot of space …
A few days ago a package arrived from SeeedStudio: the new NodeMCU board V1.0 (see picture) The NodeMCU V1.0 (picture from here) On paper it has some nice advantages compared to the old V0.9 version or also to other ESP8266 dev boards: you can directly …
Preview for my augmented reality project: A RaspberryPi with SDR-RTL dongle picks up signals from airplanes in my relative neighbourhood. When an airplane becomes visible from by living room window it sends detailed flight information to 6 modules of 8×8 Led Matrix elements such as …
Today I started a (hopefully) long term battery test with the ESP8266 board I reviewed here. The conditions are: powered by 3 AA batteries (serial) every 10 minutes update temperature and humidity retrieved from a DHT11 to thingspeak go the deep sleep between the posts …
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