Using CH340 devices with OSX Sierra
I have several low-cost development boards that use the CH340/CH341 usb-to-serial chip for usb communication. Unfortunately, with OSX Sierra, the official CH340 driver cause a Kernel Panic (freeze + reboot)…
Tag: ESP8266
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…
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…
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…
A self-hosted MQTT environment for Internet of Things – Part 2
In the second post in this series, I will setup two ESP8266 microcontrollers with MQTT publishing through a Raspberry Pi-hosted Mosquitto broker. The idea is that the microcontrollers will send…
Exploring Adafruit IO
Adafruit hosts a cloud service, io.adafruit.com, where you can upload data from your devices and also subscribe to data from other devices. The service is currently in beta, but you…
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