A while ago a wanted to build one of those nightlights for my daughter that tell her when to sleep and when to call for the parents: an orange light behind a sun depicts the day, a blue light behind a moon the night. My …
Year: 2014
ESP8266: trying out frankenstein firmware
I just gotten into the mood of trying out firmwares for the ESP8266. There is one that behaves similar to a busybox command line tool. Download the binary from here, flash it to the ESP8266 and connect to it over the serial channel: https://github.com/nekromant/esp8266-frankenstein So far …
ESP8266: flashing the lua firmware and running some code
After you setup your ESP8266 module as described here you can go on and write Arduino code that talks to the ESP8266 or even flash new firmware directly on the device. Someone has put together a firmware which allows you to send lua code to the …
ESP8266: Using a seeeduino to talk to the ESP8266 module directly
I recently received two of these shiny new Wifi modules from China and had to test them out. In many posts around the web they say you should use a serial-to-usb adapter to send some AT commands to the module and set it up with …
DevDuino Sensor Node – Part 1 – Programming the DevDuino
It took me far too long to get this working, but I finally did it: a small Arduino compatible board called “DevDuino” running on a CR2032 cell battery is sending temperature and battery voltage over the air to another Arduino board which records it. Sounds …
Use proxydns and your dd-wrt router to watch Netflix on Chromecast outside of supported countries
Sadly tunlr ceased to exist – so compared to the setup I described here http://blog.squix.ch/2013/12/use-tunlr-together-with-dnsmasq-on-your.html I had to find a working solution again. But this time I couldn’t find a free dns service anymore, but I wanted to find a cheap one at least. It appears that http://proxydns.co/ does …
Continuous Deployment from Github to App Engine Java with CodeShip
Motivation Continuous Deployment is nice: you roll out new versions of your software all the time and not only three, four times a year with your mayor release. And everything automatically. Of course this requires a good coverage of automated unit, integration and UI tests …
Google App Engine (Java) ChannelService with AngularJS
Motivation I’m currently working on a foosball web app that is widely used in breaks where I work. While you track the goals made by each of the team the app running on the app engine calculates a ranking of all the players and awards …
Angular Directives
Just found a great tutorial for writing angular directives: Here