To anticipate and prevent
Rarely have I written here about the greater geopolitical state of the world. The few times that something has come up in that vaguely political area, it’s been specifically related to technology. However, COVID-19 is changing our world at a rate unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. It’s certainly making life “interesting” in ways…
At work, I’ve been spending more time on video calls with our Eastern European office. In order for it to be a reasonable time of day for the team, my calls are either very early in the morning or very late at night. To make sure that both sides get the most out of the…
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After a lengthy run of using WordPress and a fair amount of time with basically no posts, I wanted to start the new year off right by bringing the blog back to some semblance of it’s former glory. Unfortunately that meant grappling with a wildly newer version of WordPress with an editor that had changed…
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Continuing our series from last week, we’re going to package up the Wemos D1 Mini and the BME280 Environmental sensor on a perfboard, with batteries. Or at least that was the plan until we ran into a software bug… which could have been fixed. Until… well, watch the video and count how many ways this…
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This week we’re starting to make our Micropython powered Wemos D1 truly useful with a sensor and data collection. We’ll wire up a BME280 sensor which measures temperature, humidity and air pressure. After we know it works, we’ll use Wifi and MQTT to send the data to a website for viewing.
Last week we covered how to flash Micropython onto an ESP8266 (Wemos D1 Mini) but we had to type our code into the REPL by hand. That’s not terribly useful for a real world project, so this week we learn how to upload code and make it run on boot. We’ll be using a tool…
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