Category: Computers
AWS IOT with Mosquitto
Amazon AWS recently released the IOT service, a utility for lightweight devices to create and consume messages on the internet, and also in the case of AWS to leverage the rest of their feature set, such as Kinesis, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc. Of course, I didn’t fancy using the AWS […]
Read MoreESP8266 Links
What with the recent buzz around the latest ESP8266 chips, I thought I should compile a list of handy links here… The manufacturer of ESP8266 – http://espressif.com/ Manufacturer discussion forum – http://bbs.espressif.com/ Community forum – http://www.esp8266.com/ Lua based firmware – http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html Discussion regarding MQTT on the ESP8266 – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mqtt/Uy985KUpG64 ESP8266 […]
Read MoreUpdating Optiboot & CC3000 Firmware with an Arduino
I recently purchased a CC3000 wireless board to play with on Arduinos, with an aim to use it on an Arduino Mini Pro to control some LED lighting I have. Rather than purchasing through Adafruit as I possibly should have done, it was ordered through Ebay. This turned it into a bit […]
Read MoreGitlab Setup and Timeouts
So I wanted a place to store all my private Git repositories, without going down the paid route that is Github. Callum had just set up Gitlab at work, so I thought it might be wise to just use the same toolset. What with it being installed on a VM […]
Read MoreAutomated Kitchen Lighting
Recently I decided to make some changes to the kitchen. It started off with a strip of warm white LEDs, and I thought “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”. I’ve now lost count of the number of guests asking how it works 🙂 There’s a variety of components at play here. […]
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