ESP8266 Periphery: CJMCU-530 ToF Distance Sensor

squix78 on 1. April 2017

The CJMCU-530 is a breakout module featuring the VL53L0X by ST Microelectronics which is a laser-ranging sensor for distances of up to 200cm. The module works without problems with the ESP8266 which makes it an interesting option for your next IoT project. .....

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ESP8266 PlaneSpotter Color

squix78 on 3. January 2017

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 more a “making-of” you can find build instructions on Github: https://github.com/squix78/esp8266-plane-spotter-color .....

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ESP8266 WeatherStation Kit finally in US Amazon Store

squix78 on 19. October 2016

More than two months ago I started the process to have my ESP8266 WeatherStation listed on Amazon. The big online platform offers a service called Fulfilled by Amazon or short FBA which allows you to send your items directly to their warehouse. Your product will then be shipped to your buyers with the usual speed and quality as if it was a product sold directly by Amazon. .....

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ESP8266 Weather Station Color code published

squix78 on 16. October 2016

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 .....

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Font Creator Now Creates Adafruit GFX Fonts

squix78 on 1. October 2016

As first task for the upcoming Weather Station Color project I wanted to adapt my online font generator. Easily creating fonts in various sizes will make work on the Weather Station code a lot easier. Since my own display library doesn’t support the color TFT screen I switched to Adafruit’s library. They provide a converter but it needs to be compiled and I wanted to have this feature available on my web based font converter. So I analyzed the Adafruit font files and the converter.....

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ESP8266 WeatherStation Color

squix78 on 27. September 2016

Yesterday I started playing around with a TFT color display connected to the ESP8266. First I adapted example code to download BMP files to the flash memory, and boy, this display has some nice intense colors! .....

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ESP8266 based Plane Spotter now for Arduino IDE

squix78 on 4. September 2016

I received a few complaints that users couldn’t get the Platformio IDE running since the security software detected it as malicious software. So I added the code also to the WeatherStation library as a demo project. .....

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ESP8266 Weather Station: Getting Started Guide available for Kindle

squix78 on 3. September 2016

Once in a while I like to try out new ways to reach the audience. I’m happy to present the ESP8266 Weather Station: Getting Started Guide is now available for Kindle. If you are a frequent reader of this blog you might recognise some content of the guide from older posts. But I hope you still enjoy reading it on another device and in a revised form with additional information for beginners. .....

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ESP8266 Weather Station on the “Big Screen”

squix78 on 20. August 2016

The 0.96″ OLED displays I usually use for the WeatherStation are gorgeous but they could be bigger, right? Recently a bigger version of the SSD1306 based display became available on my favourite channels. Thanks to great work of the community (especially Fabrice Weinberg) the OLED library on Github as been extended to supp.....

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ESP8266: Turn a $9 Body Scale into a Smart Scale – Part 1

squix78 on 22. July 2016

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 local super market for 9 Swiss Francs (which is currently about USD $9.-) and I am optimistic that other digital scales will work for you as well. This project was a lot of fun since I had to do reverse-engineering, soldering, programming and (optiona.....

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