Archive of posts with category 'IoT'
I made a network monitoring tool that uses the data it collects to make a neighborhood of virtual pets.
My failed attempt to make an IoT nightlight.
I made an IoT dice box to combine two of my favorite open source LED projects, Pixels Dice and WLED.
I wrote a library for connecting Pixel dice to the ESP32 mcu and published it for Arduino and PlatformIO.
A friend wanted to use a toy guitar as a prop for a halloween costume, and they asked if I could swap out the sound effects with playing some song...
A friend of mine gave me a baby toy to hack awhile back, and I finally got a chance to take a crack at it.
I added a cat door to one of our windows to give our cat a bit more freedom to make up from our lack of attention due to the baby....
Scratch is an online visual programming tool meant to introduce children to programming. I made an extension that allows the language to control LEDs through a WLED controller.
With fire season approaching in California I wanted to get a air quality monitor to see how bad the air is over time. I thought I’d do another reverse engineering...
I bought a cheap weather station with the intent of adding networked data logging. I ended up reverse engineering both the RF transmission, as well as the inter-chip communication at...
After the Roomba and Reolink, I thought Nest devices would be a snap. How wrong I was. Google made this much, much then it had any right to be.
Who watches the watchmen? In this case I set up a check to monitor my security cameras.
I wanted to know what my Roomba was up to without going through official channels.
I wanted to do a quickish project over my time off for the holidays. I had a recently broken a coffee grinder, and it inspired me to automate a chair...
I had a really cool 3 position key switch that I’ve been trying to come up for a use for. I decided to make an IoT controller that could turn...
Well it’s been awhile since we’ve been able to travel, so to feel better I decided to make a memento to the big trip Maria and I went on last...
Another update to Web Based Door Control. Here I take the path of least resistance to add Google Assistant integration and uptime monitoring by integrating with Blynk, IFTTT, and UptimeRobot....
As gift for my wife’s birthday I wanted to make something to celebrate our shared time with the game Fire Emblem Three Houses. I was originally inspired by a light...
As a followup to NodeMCU Development, I decided to connect my project to the AWS IoT cloud to see what that entailed. Turns out, it’s a huge amount of headache...
I’m starting another electronic art project, and decided to use the NodeMCU for the processor. It’s cheap, easy to setup, and has WiFi. However, when I previously used the board...
This idea was based on the concept of making a “Sound Catcher” pixel display. I’ve been wanting to make this for a long time, but only recently made the time...
After have locked myself out of my apartment one too many times, I decided that running to make a keyless entry system. I’ve been looking for a project to use a Raspberry...
Here’s a quick hack I through together to prevent jerks from ringing my doorbell late at night.
