• Arduino-esp32 Basic course – Getting started – Chapter 1

    First of all, this small series of blog posts, assume you have installed and are familiar with Platformio IDE to edit and upload code to your Espressif chips. We ‘ve covered in another post the installation and getting started part with this nice IoT editor. Please refer to this section of Platformio to get the…

  • Trying out Waveshare E-Paper ESP32 driver board

    Trying out Waveshare E-Paper ESP32 driver board

    In my pursuit to make the CALE displays as small as possible but also to learn how different boards interact with Epaper I got last week an Waveshare E-Ink ESP32 driver board. Not all the boards need to use the default SPI GPIOs of the ESP32 and this was one of this cases. Opening the…

  • Hackaday projects update: CALE Eink Calendar and udpx

    I must say although I’m not proud of all the projects I tried to document in Hackaday I do like a lot udpx and Remora, that are made initially to control Addressable LEDs, but they could be expanded and used for another uses. CALE This is actually an old project for the agency I work…

  • PHP Symfony versioning and composer

    Lately I’ve been switching to new versions and upgrading Symfony for client projects that I cannot reveal, but what I would like to share in this simple and short post is what combinations worked for me after many hours switching versions and dependancies. Symfony 4 This is the easiest one since is the last version…

  • Cordova cross platform mobile applications

    After the small Chrome App experience that resulted in a very compact app that reads Video and sends an UDP binary stream to ESP32 Led controllers I decided to start learning how to program a real mobile app. Real because I find that the way to do it must end in the App Store and…

  • Building Visual Code in a Raspberry Pi

    When I’m on the road without laptop I miss having something to compile Espressif boards. So I decided to document this a little bit.Visual Code is the base for Platformio that is my IDE of choice when coding in C / C++ It turns out that for ARM like many other software you need to…

  • Met Remora a simple firmware and language to launch addressable led animations from ORCΛ

    Met Remora a simple firmware and language to launch addressable led animations from ORCΛ

    Remora listens to UDP short commands to trigger LED Animations. Receives ; commands from ORCΛ As a side fun idea while learning Nodejs and while working for a bigger and more complex project with my partner Hendrik I programmed Remora just to have an easy way to launch animations from ORCΛ If you want to…

  • UDP + Brotli compressed messages on Microcontrollers: Sending more with less

    I wanted to document on this paper my efforts on researching a way to send efficiently a lot of data to an ESP32. One of the attractive features of UDP is that since it does not need to retransmit lost packets nor does it do any connection setup, sending data incurs less delay. That made…

  • Exploring ESP32 Mesh technology

    On last short holidays on Barcelona I went to visit my father and I brought with me a very small present: Preview and git #repository https://t.co/9UtWLAJeqA for any model of Heltec #esp32 boards. Extended ESP IDF example pic.twitter.com/itm1vHvqfM — Fasani Corp. (@martinfasani) April 7, 2019 Well actually the second one is for him, but the…

  • Espressif ESP-Mesh updates their App with a new UX

    About a month ago I started learning to use ESP-IDF and got very interested in Espressif Mesh Lamps. It’s a lot of fun for me to create my own ESP-Mesh LEDs lamps with this technology. But as with everything I touch that is open-source, apart of being a user, I try to collaborate and made…