Category Archives: Technical

More WeMos Arrived

Posted on August 16, 2016 by larry

I got a couple of more WeMos D1 and now I am able to put it in to my prototype unit. This time no pins and the whole unit fits in to the receiver.  

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ESP8266 Interesting EEPROM issue

Posted on August 15, 2016 by larry

Another meetup today, I started the discussion on the ESP8266 and saving WiFi settings, but before the meetup I though about how secure the ESP8266 EEPROM is. I think if you save anything unencrypted on to the EEPROM, it will … Continue reading →

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Really Moving on PIR

Posted on August 11, 2016 by larry

I feel like I am really progressing with the new PIR. I should have something reasonable in a few days, I hope by the end of the week I will have something that is Alpha and presentable, and by end … Continue reading →

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New PIR Motion Sensor

Posted on August 10, 2016 by larry

I finally opened up the new 1byone motion sensor I got The package it came in had two boxes in it The receiver board looks the same as the bunker hill ones but they are different. Also the transmitter uses … Continue reading →

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Looking for Smart Scale

Posted on August 9, 2016 by larry

I didn’t run that hard today because I had other stuff on my mind. For one thing I need to get a new scale, I found a smart one, I should have just gotten it and called it good. Then … Continue reading →

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Redoing ESP8266

Posted on August 5, 2016 by larry

Kind of frustrating,  my NodeMCU isn’t processing serial the data as I would like. I can do one line at a time but it can’t deal with a large cut and paste of data. I will spend couple hours tonight … Continue reading →

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Rudimentary App Running

Posted on August 4, 2016 by larry

I got a Windows App written in C# talking to my NodeMCU. Not perfect, but I got some of the concepts right. Also ran today, or tried to, hip still sore.  

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Pretty Interesting Day

Posted on August 2, 2016 by larry

The whole day, I was hanging due to allergies, but nonetheless it was pretty productive. My son and I turned in our voting ballots. Got him on a plane to Hawaii Finished a long overdue project at work Cleaned the … Continue reading →

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Stressful Day

Posted on August 1, 2016 by larry

Been a bad day for me, my PC kept crashing and it was impacting what I needed to do. My son is leaving on a trip, and all the crashes was really setting me back. I even went as far … Continue reading →

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ESP8266 and EEPROM

Posted on July 31, 2016 by larry

I was finally able to write to the non volatile memory of an ESP8266. It seemed pretty easy.  I got a data structure to save my network settings.  That little dev platform I have is pretty sweet.  It made things … Continue reading →

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