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Flash Tasmota Firmware to a Sonoff Smart Socket

As a vintage IOT enthusiast I used to flash my own ESPs with code I patched together in the Arduino IDE. My sketch would include WiFi »

How to Make the "Tip the Balance" Bathroom Scale

If you've decided to make the Tip the Balance Bathroom Scale, you won't find instructions here! (If you insist on making it, you can find the »

Hack together a dirt-cheap LoRa transmitter/receiver dev board

LoRa is relatively new in IoT. (Actually, not that new, but it's taking time to percolate into the ecosphere.) For those that don't know, LoRa stands »

Make an Astonishingly Minimalistic Multicolor LED Display for Pennies

A few months before Christmas, social media channels start filling with instructions about LEDs for home decoration. Popular software is WLED, a program that describes itself »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »