Feeding the internet with even more cat images via @SpritesMods's esphttpd running on #ESP32 esp-idf #IoT
Feeding the internet with even more cat images


Feeding the internet with even more cat images via @SpritesMods's esphttpd running on #ESP32 esp-idf #IoT

#ESP32 BLE iBeacon to #MQTT proof of concept bridge project.. #IoT

Needed to do quick and dirty PoC test using RFM69 on a breadboard,2mm pich adjusted to 2.54mm

Prototype bring-up sucess

Rewiring messed up SMD connections on prototype board

Got my hands on a @Agilent DSO-X3034A for few hours today, lovely piece of equipment other than that you have to sell a kidney to buy one.

Did an #IoT tech talk at DXC Technology (HPE)

Working prototype of ultra low power (20 uA) LCD display for battery operated wireless temperature #IoT node

Heavily revised my old battery operated wireless temperature sensor node code, achieved 15% lower current consumption footprint.. #IoT

Working on ultra low power status display for battery operated wireless temperature sensor #IoT

I2C retrofit 😉
Recording of my "#IoT startup" tech talk at ISTA conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHo0Sgn_E7o

Announcing proSmart – a new company I co-founded to design and develop IoT home and industrial automation solutions.

Ending the twice-a-year clock fiddling: automatic DST adjustment for my microcontroller projects, and why DST barely saves energy anyway.

FOTA for the ATmega32U4 + RFM69 without external flash – the dual-bank trick that Moteino solves with a flash chip, done without one.

First look at the ESP32: I got one of the 200 early beta boards of Espressif’s ESP8266 big brother, here are the specs and impressions.

Poor man’s spectrum analysis with the RFM12B – scanning the 868MHz band to check how noisy my chosen channel really is.

An RFM69 to MQTT gateway on the ESP8266 – Andrey Balarev and I wrote the missing RFM69 driver to bridge sub-GHz nodes to Wi-Fi.

Reaching a headless IoT device after DHCP: local hostnames with mDNS/NetBIOS instead of hunting IP addresses in the router UI.

The initial setup problem: how to get an IoT product onto the user’s Wi-Fi without killing their enthusiasm – options compared.

Building my own cloud based version control tool – GitHub is great until you want your code history on infrastructure you control.

After the DDoS and daily hack attempts, this blog now runs on a free signed SSL certificate – how I set it up.

A DDoS attack is hammering this blog with thousands of HTTP requests per minute – what the hosting provider offered and what I did instead.

A tweeting ESP8266, no proxy service involved – the chip talks to Twitter’s API directly, SSL and all.

Some thoughts on IoT security: billions of records in transit daily, and most of the sensors sending them were never designed to be safe.

Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) for the ESP8266 – why every embedded project needs remote updates and how I implemented mine.

The $35 Raspberry Pi isn’t really $35 – comparing the true cost of physical Pis against virtual machines for home automation duty.

Running the Funky v3’s RFM69CW on LowPowerLab’s native RF69 library instead of Jeelib – what changes and what you gain.

Testing a 4-line OneWire library change that lets the DS18B20 run off internal pull-ups – no more pesky external 4.7K resistor on SMD boards.

Swapping the RFM12B for the pin-compatible RFM69CW – +30% range and better sensitivity for roughly the same price.

Speech generation with Node-RED: the house reads notifications aloud so I stop picking up my phone 50+ times a day.

Turning my open source WiFi relay board into an Internet connected humidistat – fan coil heating kept our indoor humidity below 30%.