Make a smart kettle for under £60 using Alexa and Arduino. Things used in this project Hardware components Arduino MKR1000 × 1 SparkFun Logic Level Converter – Bi-Directional × 1 Tefal Temperature Control Kettle × 1 Software apps and online services Arduino IDE Amazon Alexa Alexa Skills Kit Amazon Web Services AWS Lambda Shiftr Story […]
Alexa, Put the Kettle On! Continue Reading
If you are mainly involved in designing or repairing digital devices, a logic analyzer is more useful than an oscilloscope for tracing signal through circuits. However, does this mean you should rush out and buy a logic analyzer? The instruments from the leading manufacturers are too expensive for home use or startup businesses, and the
Review: ScanaQuad – a super-small logic analyzer Continue Reading
IoT security/environment monitoring device with NFC & fingerprint authentication devices and a Weak Artificial Intelligence Assistant. Things used in this project Hardware components Arduino UNO & Genuino UNO × 2 Arduino MKR1000 × 1 Solderless Breadboard Half Size × 1 SeeedStudio Grove Base Shield × 1 SeeedStudio Fingerprint Scanner × 1 PN532 NFC Module
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A project using the AmazonDRS library for WiFi101 connected Arduinos. Just like the AWS IoT button, but completely open source! Things used in this project Story TL;DR; Buy some stuff on Amazon by clicking a pushbutton connected to your WiFi101 enabled Arduino. It’s like a Dash button, but cooler! Motivation Back in the Spring of
Amazon Dash Button for Arduino! Continue Reading
A pair of former engineers from Agilent (now Keysight) Technologies are working on an oscilloscope that will connect to an iOS device for its user interface. The Aeroscope, conceived by Alexander Lee and Jonathan Ward, looks like the kind of device that you’d use on home projects or in field locations. I recently spoke with
Aeroscope – a wireless oscilloscope Continue Reading
This post will describe how I inspected the IP traffic of a cheap pan/tilt IP camera. Then continued to open the camera up, connect to the serial console of the SoC; extracted the root password and logged in via telnet over the wireless interface. My goal was to have a look at the security of
IoT IP camera teardown and getting root password Continue Reading
During the last months, a new WS2812 alternative appeared on the market: The SK6812. I finally managed to get my hands on some of them to take a closer look. In most aspects these devices are basically clones of the WS2812. What is interesting however, is that the manufacturer came up with a couple of
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In today’s modern world, where ever we go we have lots of electronic devices around us. But, out of all, there is only one device that we personally have in our pockets all the time. Yes, it is our mobile phones. Now Mobile phones have become more than a device used for communication, they are
Cell Phone Controlled AC using Arduino and Bluetooth Continue Reading
About this project Helium exists to help developers build low power, secure, connected devices. In this project, we’ll walk through using the Helium Atom Prototyping module with an Arduino Zero and Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout to seamless send data to Azure IoT Hub and then on to a Power BI report to visualize the data.
GPS Tracking Using Helium, Azure IoT Hub, and Power BI Continue Reading
Christmas 2015 yours truly was one of the lucky few in the world to receive the ESP32 for experimenting. The board was not assembled, and it was quite intimidating to assemble the board with just a fine tip solder. The experiment is documented at this URL: https://www.instructables.com/id/Beginners-ESP32-Gu… This afternoon, yours truly came across the Arduino
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