Do you have these moments when you start to realize that something you just created is gonna be a game changer, at least for you but maybe also for others? Last week I had such a moment when I decided to follow up on an …
Tag: ESP8266
ESPaper: Introduction Video 2.9″ Kit
2.9″ ESPaper Kits ready for pre-order
I am very happy to announce that the 2.9″ ESPaper module is now ready for your pre-orders in two versions.
ESP8266 and ESP32: Interview with Sergey Lyubka from Mongoose OS
Hi Sergey, thank you so much much for agreeing to this interview! Can you tell us a bit about your role at Mongoose OS? I am a technical cofounder and CTO of a company behind Mongoose OS, and set the overall technical direction for the …
New WeatherStation Color Version published
It’s been a while since my last post, but I have been working hard on improving the WeatherStation Color. Read here the engineering challenges I had to overcome and how I solved them
ESP8266 Periphery: CJMCU-530 ToF Distance Sensor
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.
ESP8266 PlaneSpotter Color
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 …
ESP8266 WeatherStation Kit finally in US Amazon Store
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 …
ESP8266 Weather Station Color code published
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
Font Creator Now Creates Adafruit GFX Fonts
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 …
ESP8266 WeatherStation Color
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!
ESP8266 based Plane Spotter now for Arduino IDE
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.
ESP8266 Weather Station: Getting Started Guide available for Kindle
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 …
ESP8266 Weather Station on the “Big Screen”
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 …
ESP8266: Turn a $9 Body Scale into a Smart Scale – Part 1
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 …
ESP8266 based Plane Spotter – How To
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 …
ESP8266-Hack – Piggybacking OLED display on WeMos D1 Mini
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.
ESP8266: SSD1306 Oled Library Release
The “ESP8266 OLED SSD1306″ is an open source library which allows you to control those pretty OLED modules from our beloved ESP8266 module. Fabrice Weinberg cleaned up all the ugly pieces of code which I initially wrote caused by my near C/C++ illiteracy. He also added support for …
ESP8266: Continuous Delivery Pipeline – Push To Production
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 …
ESP8266 Peripherals: Indoor Positioning with IR Camera
The sensor I’m going to talk about here is a very powerful one. And you actually might have a very similar one in your home somewhere. The DF Robot Positioning IR Camera uses the same or similar module that is built into the Nintendo Wiimote …
ESP8266 Peripherals: KY-040 Rotary Encoder
The ESP8266 took the hearts of the IoT and Do-It-Yourself community by storm, due the very attractive price, its internet connectivity and due to the relatively rich amount of available GPIO pins. But an internet connected device is not worth much without means to interact with …
ESP8266: Offline Debugging with the Platformio Environment
Having tools is great but you also need to know how to use them. Being a native Java speaker using a debugger is a very natural and easy thing. With the ESP8266 on the other hand this looks a bit different. I struggled now for …
Laser Cutted Case for the WeatherStation
@WaldyWiz designed a wonderful case for the ESP8266 WeatherStation which you can lasercut yourself. Thank you for sharing!Got inspired? Order the development kit here: https://blog.squix.org/product/weatherstation-kit-w-white-oled for US $24.50 Resources https://wizbrewery.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/iot-laser-cut-case/ https://github.com/wizbrewery/iot-laser-cut-case
WeatherStation & 3D Printing: striving for seamless integration
As you might know already I am now a proud owner of a 3D printer, a Printrbot Play. In the last few weeks I have tried to master the printer and I have learned a lot in this time. It was only a matter of …
ESP8266 Arduino IDE Alternative: Platformio
The Arduino IDE is a good choice for a beginner to get into the world of small embedded devices. Feedback that I got from Weather Station Users indicates that the ESP8266 attracts many hobbyists to the IoT field that before had little experience with programming …
ESP8266 Products Hitting the Market
Today I discovered a new ESP8266 based product on Banggood which looks quite interesting: the SONOFF (maybe short for switch on/off?) from ITead Studio which is a WiFi controllable switch in a nice and safe case for between USD $4.85 – 9. Not bad! Obviously I …