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The MicroPython Lego Bot
In the quest for getting my kids interested in coding, I’ve decided to make them a message controlled bot car with Lego bricks and an ESP8266 board. The idea is to have an environment where we can jointly program a sequence of actions that can be sent via WiFi to the bot for execution. With this setup…
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A sensor monitor with OLED in MicroPython
I have different sensor nodes at home that publish measurements at regular intervals to a Raspberry Pi. The data is stored on the RPi and in a cloud service and can be viewed with various applications. As my most common use case is to view the latest value of a particular sensor, I would like to…
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Preparing the remote control app for Christmas
Winter is soon to arrive in Sweden and the amount of daylight is decreasing every day. Thus it’s time to set up some extra light sources indoors and outdoors. I have been using my web app for remote controlled outlets (link) for some months now, but with the additional light sources needed for this time…
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Radio chirp data incorporated in an MQTT environment
Internet-of-things does not require that every device has to be directly connected to the Internet. The complexity and possible security issues with every sensor having its own IP address would in fact be overwhelming. A better approach would be to use more light-weight protocols for the sensor and actuator data and locally aggregate and filter these…
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Processing and Arduino
Processing is an open-source IDE with a Java-based programming language that is aimed at lowering the learning threshold for interactive graphics creation. It can be used for teaching programming, making prototypes, creating art experiments or just generating crazy visual stuff in general. The community is very active and there are tons of useful contributed libraries. Wiring…
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MicroPython and ESP8266
During the past 6 months I have grown into a big fan of the Python programming language. I have also found a new passion in tinkering with the versatile and inexpensive ESP8266 microcontroller boards. For the embedded programming I usually stick with Arduino IDE and C/C++, but as there now is a Python implementation for ESP8266 available,…
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