My family and I live in an apartment building and the laundry machine and the tumble dryer are in the basement. In the past, it happened many times that I went down to take out the laundry just to realize that the machine was still …
With the last production batch we secretly updated the ESP8266 WeatherStation Color Kit. First change is the increased size of the custom PCB, which now has the same size as the TFT board. We also added holes and two spacers and female headers so that …
In the following video I explain the new web interface for configuring the ESPaper WeatherStation application. This allows you to change WiFi or location settings without reprogramming the ESPaper The ESPaper Plus Kit is available from the Squix Shop
I am very happy to announce that the 2.9″ ESPaper module is now ready for your pre-orders in two versions.
After many hours of work I’m very happy to finally publish all the sources for the ESP8266 PlaneSpotter project. It is not yet really in a V1.0.0 state but I’m sure with the help of the community it will quickly get better. While this post is …
If you don’t mind code which is a little bit rough around the edges you can start experimenting with the code for the color weather station. I just published it on Github. You can find it here: https://github.com/squix78/esp8266-weather-station-color
In this project I will show you how you can build yourself a fancy Withings-like body scale. I divided the article into two parts: Part 1 describes the hardware hack and Part 2 the software. In this project I used a cheap scale I bought in the …
When I sit at my living room table I can see wonderful big airplanes in the final approach to Zurich (ZRH) airport or ascending to a far destination: Airbus A380 or Boeing B777 are ingenious proof of what we are capable to design and build. Quite often when …
Inspired by Mike Rankin’s (@mikerankin) beautiful crossovers between an ESP8266 ESP-01 and an 0.96 Inch OLED I2C display I decided to try if there wasn’t an easy hack to marry the two components with as little soldering as possible.
The integration of the ESP8266 framework into the Arduino IDE brought ease of use for development. This was further improved when firmwares could be pushed over the local network to the test devices with the direct over-the-air feature. But what if your ESP8266 devices are …
<Measuring Inside and Outside Part 1 In Part 1 of this series you learned how to connect a DHT temperature/humidity sensor directly to your WeatherStation and to display the readings as an additional frame in the carousel rotation. In this second part I will show …
Measuring Inside and Outside Temperature – Part 2> The code you get with the WeatherStation (https://github.com/squix78/esp8266-weather-station) is meant as a starting point for beginners and enthusiasts to display information. So far there are modules to get correct time from the internet as well as current …
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