As part of my Weather Station upgrade, I am having the ESP communicate status over UDP (like a heartbeat I guess). This will inform me of current sketch version and a few other parameters because it is remote and this would function as a rudimentary ‘Serial Monitor’. I’ll tell yah, I spent about 4 days …
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Weather Upgrade to ESP32
I tried to use the MKR1000 for my weather board upgrade, but it didn’t seem to be ready for prime-time. The damn thing kept locking up. This was before I located it remotely in my shed, too. I ended up getting a NodeMCU ESP32 (WROOM-32) instead. These are fabulous little boards – they actually have …
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EmonCMS Inputs and Feeds
Further info on the wireless weather station and the logging app/site EmonCMS. EmonCMS is fantastic for logging and displaying your sensor data. I have setup a server on a Beagleboard XM, as I mentioned in previous post. It works flawlessly if you treat it right. What I mean is that messing with inputs and feeds …
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Wireless Weather Station Update
There are tons of weather station how-to sites on the Web. I am not going to run through the how’s and why’s of setting one up. I will add some info that has helped me get it where I wanted it. First a little background……. I had started this project about a year ago. In …
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NodeMCU (ESP8266) upload sketches wirelessly
More on the NodeMCU (V1)….. This little booger is great! I have tried all kinds of wireless upload solutions with Arduino (Olimexino with ESP8266, Nano with various wireless devices) and the end result of actually uploading the sketch never succeeded. It all had to do with the reset aspect which causes the bootloader to accept …
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Notes on the AS3935 Lightning Sensor
I finally got around to testing this sensor (two actually). The AS3935 is IC sensor created by AustriaMicroSyetems. There are a few breakout boards available out there with the chip installed. The first one I got from Tautic on Tindie is no longer available. The second breakout board I got was from PlayingWithFusion. I never …
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Back to Sensing
Finally had some time to tinker again. This time working on the distance sensing function of eventual autonomic robot. I turned to a good ol’ Arduino for the physical IO. I got a Nano, and this is a sweet little microprocessor. All the functions of an Uno crammed into a little DIP from factor. For …
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Pan-Tilt and Video Figured Out….
After much trial and error and success with PWM and the neck servos (Hitec), I found I was having problems getting the servos to work together using basic pulse width in the Arduino code. Each servo worked perfectly when singled out, but trying a pan-tilt at the same time caused servos slamming to the ends …
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