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Mike Diamond

Lawyer, author, ex-medical school director, medical education accreditation consultant, and enthusiastic self-taught maker.

http://www.michaeldiamondlaw.biz 48 posts
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Getting an IKEA Motion Sensor to work in Node Red

I usually start my posts by warning readers that I'm an amateur with no background in coding or electronics. I write these blogs because while I'm »

Mike Diamond on IKEA - Raspberry-pi - node red - PIR - home automation - raspberry pi - zigbee - zigbee2mqtt - cc2532 02 July 2022
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The Idiot's guide to making Volos Project's Beautiful Smart Watch

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 »

Mike Diamond on esp32 - ESP8266 - DS3231 - raspberry pi pico - GC9A01 - volosprojects - smart watch - CH34XSER driver - CH9102X driver 10 June 2022
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Make a Remote Temp Sensor with Permanent Display inside your House

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 »

Mike Diamond on ESP8266 - raspberry pi - mqtt - node red - DS18B20 - Wemos D1 Mini - ssd1306 05 February 2022
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Connecting Switcher Devices to Node Red

One of the first commercial home automation devices I bought was a hot water boiler switch from Switcher. Like most remote devices, it came with its »

Mike Diamond on node red - node.js - raspberry pi - github - switcher-js - switcher.py 21 October 2021
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Cricket Version 2

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 »

Mike Diamond on Cricket - ESP8266 - Battery - thingsonedge - RTC - OTA - IOT - mqtt - raspberry pi - node red 25 May 2021
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Remote On/Off Switch for Blynk Relay - using ThingsonEdge Cricket, Node Red, and MQTT

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 »

Mike Diamond on node red - ESP8266 - Cricket - IFTTT - blynk - thingsonedge 23 March 2021
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Learn how to easily ssh into many Raspberry Pis without passwords

This post was prompted by an exchange I saw on a RasPi Facebook group a couple of weeks ago. It started when someone asked how many »

Mike Diamond on raspberry pi - ssh - passwordless - ssh-keygen 17 January 2021
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Display colourful live graphs on any Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks

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 »

Mike Diamond on ESP8266 - Raspberry-pi - RasPi - Cricket - Guysoft - Octopi - Octoprint - pYrogss - MtigOS - Grafana 20 August 2020
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"Cricket" from Things on Edge

A chance encounter on a Facebook group brought me - literally - to the Edge. I read a post in which someone mentioned the ThingsonEdge "Cricket" »

Mike Diamond on ESP8266 - 18650 - mailbox - node red - mqtt - raspberry pi 03 July 2020
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Your IoT devices may be disconnecting your router - a quick, simple, and inexpensive fix

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 »

Mike Diamond on IOT - ESP8266 - router restarter - overheating router - modem - combo 05 June 2020
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