DIY Projects Home automation, connected objects (IoT) and DIY projects based on Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, mini PC (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi) and 3D printing

The Arduino IDE is available on major operating systems and of course on Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution. The Arduino IDE is available for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Linux. This is the opportunity to recycle an old PC running Windows XP to get you started programming the Arduino, …

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After introducing the Homie library in the two previous articles (well starting with Homie, programming principle), it is time to move on to a complete example of application. In this tutorial we will learn how to include a temperature probe in the home wizard Home Assistant developed based on an …

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Blynk consists of a server and an application for iOS. If you have your own Blynk private server (read this article to learn how), you can make your connected objects developed using Blynk accessible from the internet without having to expose your hardware to the internet through the Homebridge project. …

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In this tutorial we will learn how to install and configure the Samba file server. The Orange Pi – or any other mini-PC in the Raspberry Pi family – can do almost as much as a Windows PC or Mac but you often need to share files with others Computers …

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Microsoft has taken a 180 ° turn by taking some of these professional products on Linux and now by allowing to use the Linux Bash on Windows 10. You will tell me, but what it can serve me well, I am not a developer ! Yes, it is true, on …

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Previously, we discovered the Homie library which simplifies the writing of Arduino code to develop connected objects ESP8266 which communicate by MQTT messages. In this article we will discuss in more detail how to use the library in an Arduino program. The library offers a very large number of functions …

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Since version 1.3, the Raspberry Pi Zero has a camera connector on which the 8MP camera of the Raspberry Pi can be connected by means of an adapter. Home Assistant supports many cameras. In this project, we will be manufacturing – very quickly – a mini surveillance camera using Node-RED. …

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The Lite version of Raspbian Jessie is very well suited to the limited resources of the Raspberry Pi Zero W. Node-RED is pre-installed on the version integrating the Pixel graphics desktop but this is not the case for the Lite version. Fortunately, there is an installation script now that takes …

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The new version of Raspbian (2017-06-21), which now includes Scratch 2 and the Thonny Python code editor, is available for download and upgrade from the Terminal using the dist-upgrade command. This new version is based on the kernel 4.9 of Linux announced last December). It also contains a new set …

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The Raspberry Pi Zero W (the new version incorporating WiFi) is equipped with two USB ports in micro-USB format as well as a mini HDMI video output. The use of these connectors makes the Pi Zero W very compact – it measures 4.7mm thick – but this makes the installation …

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