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 »
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 »
Today I made an NTP synchronized smart-lamp
Ill keep it short. Since my last project, the smart-cloud-like-lamp, I wanted to learn how to use NTP synchronization. Time synchronization issues came up quite often »
Today I made a smart cloud-like lamp
While playing with cement was fun, I am more a locally-distributed-Server-Client-architectured-HTTP-protocolled-cloud-like-smart-lamp-maker kinda guy. Bonus: Try to find Mufasa (my dog) in one of the images A »
Today I've learned how to use cement!
I love scavenging for goods in my street :) You see, soon I'll start working more from home, so its time to make myself a proper office »
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 »
Learn how to use VSCode with ESP32 & Arduino
Hey All, This is a short manual I made while configuring VSCode IDE to work with ESP32 and Arduino on Ubuntu. Note: assuming VScode is already »
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 »
Learn how to use doxygen
In my previous post, I've described how I used design patterns for my TelloCpp driver. But, while project design is important - A project is nothing »
How to design a project from scratch
This post is all about project design. But before getting into UML's and other modeling tools, let us have a quick rewind: A few months back »