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 ProtoCentral HealthyPi is an extension project for Raspberry Pi compatible with HAT for monitoring vital signs such as ECG, respiration, pulse oximeter and temperature. ProtoCentral is an Indian company based in Bangalore. She is launching her project on the participatory financing platform Crowd Supply. The HealthyPi is a very …

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Connected objects developed using the MySensors library are very well supported by Home Assistant. In this tutorial, we will see how to integrate MySensors projects developed using version 2.x of the library. You can connect directly to a MySensors Gateway or an MQTT gateway. We will see how to do …

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The Xiaomi Smart Home kit is very well supported by the Open Source Home Assistant home automation server. This very economical kit is very well adapted to begin in home automation. In this tutorial, we will configure step by step the main devices of the kit: gateway, temperature and humidity …

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The Espressif Development Kit for ESP32 boards is available on GitHub for macOS, Windows, 32-bit Linux, 64-bit and ARM chips (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, etc …). It is still under development but can be installed to program ESP32-based development boards directly from the Arduino IDE. In this tutorial, we will …

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Amazon has just released AWS Lambda’s “AWS Greengrass” IoT for Linux devices that offers offline synchronization and instant messaging. AWS Greengrass works on ARM and x86 platforms including Raspberry Pi 3. AWS Greengrass is a software that allows you to safely run local computing, messaging, and data caching services for …

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Smart Shades by Wazombi Labs is a small box that allows motorizing a window blind. Wazombin Labs is a small Estonian service company. It specializes in circuit design, embedded software, development of mobile applications (iOS and Android) and design of interfaces (and animations). Wazombin being its catalog of skills by …

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When the Resin.io team does not take itself seriously, here is what it gives, a Raspberry Pi and its screen 7 “fully coated in the epoxy resin. Resin.io is the team of the Etcher software to prepare SD cards that I use very often in tutorials. This project was given …

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Armbian version 5.27 introduces a configuration tool called armbian-config. This is almost the equivalent of raspi-config on Raspbian. Armbian can run on mini PCs with very different designs (Allwinner, freescale, actionsemi), the tool does not support the configuration of hardware devices (camera, GPIO, I2C …). What can be configured with …

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After the success of the Wi-Fi ESP8266 modules, Espressif has not stopped in such a good way and today offers us its successor the ESP32. The first development cards based on the SoC ESP-WROOM-32 very often exceeded €15. Since the beginning of 2017, prices have fallen sharply. It is no …

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to use a 0.96-inch monochrome OLED display with 128 x 64 pixels driven by an I2C SSD1306 microcontroller. You can find this screen at Adafruit or Sparkfun to locate only these two manufacturers but also many Asian clones if you are not in …

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