I thought I would share some of the projects and prototypes I have been working on during COVID-19 lock down to keep me actively learning and challenged.
Devices
Various flavours of Expressif esp8266 and esp32 for IoT WiFi and Bluetooth projects.… Read more
I have a 9VDC battery powered smoke alarm in my workshop and while you can hear it when it goes off in the workshop, you can’t hear it from upstairs or when nobody is at home. So I decided to retrofit an esp8266-01 to the smoke alarm to make it WiFi enabled so that it notifies me via SMS and email if the alarm goes off.… Read more
I love the Internet and the Open Source community! The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) recently offered a workshop on scientific applications for the Internet of Things and released a downloadable booklet with everything you need to know to deploy wireless sensor networks using the latest IoT technologies.… Read more