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 MySensors library received a major update this summer. In this article we will discover what is new, how to write your new programs and how to migrate your old sketches. Before to start, you have to know that you can now install the library directly with the Arduino IDE …

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In this tutorial we will make a connected anemometer with a wind vane based on a ESP8266 WiFi module. If you have a 3D printer, you just need to print mechanical components of this projects with your printer. You can find all STL files on github. For the anemometer, we will …

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There are many projects to recycle old DVD players into a mini CNC Plotter based on Arduino. It is a nice project and ideal to start with its Arduino. The mechanical construction and more particularly the pencil holder can be difficult. I propose in this article to realize a mini …

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Etcher is an Open Source and free software that allows to write images disk on USB key or SD card. Etcher is a cross-platform software available for Windows (32 and 64 bits), Linux (32 and 64 bits) and Mac OS X (beyond version 10.9). You can download free etcher on …

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Node-Red is a graphical programming language for developing connected objects (and many other things). Node-Red is an open source (and free) project supported by IBM. It is an ideal language to start programming. To write this article, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 with the Raspbian distribution. Node-Red is available …

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Here we are already at the 3rd generation of this fabulous little computer that is the Raspberry Pi 3. There are already many tutorials on the internet explaining the start-up of a Raspberry Pi 3, we will skim these steps and realize some Settings useful for everyday use. In this …

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