• Starting to do smart-home appliances with ESP-Mesh

    “ESP–Mesh reduces the loading of smart light devices on the router by forming a mesh with the smart light device.” I’ve started months ago getting some smart lights for home and I’ve chosen Osram since it was about half the price than Phillips VUE. But the thing with this systems, though they work nice and…

  • Postman self documenting tests and runner import

    Postman self documenting tests and runner import

    I’ve been working on the last days doing extensive API testing and needed to find an easy way to document my tests. Postman offers already something very useful that uploads your tests documentation to their website. But sometimes we need just a simple HTML that can be privately delivered to the client. That’s where this…

  • 3D Printer upgrade

    Since last year, when I started 3D-printing, I bought my first printer just to see if I find my way into it. Since then I found out that I could remember my days in the university studing graphic design and that I can actually design pretty well. But from that to product design there is…

  • Reading an image bitmap file from the web using ESP8266 and C++

    There are a couple of different ways to do it, but I wanted to do it after a simple image example, to understand a bit better how reading a stream from the web to get as far as the pixel information and send it to a display. As a reference then I started with ZinggJM/GxEPD…

  • E-Paper driver to make your electronics smaller

    Got from Waveshare some of this E-Paper ESP8266 driver boards: I’m trying to make the electronics of my displays as small as possible and to avoid the wire-chaos inside the case with the goal of having more space for the battery. This will basically spare the need of the driver HAT and additional cables, something…

  • Wemos D1 consumption and VCC pins

    So this 6 min boring video was just an experiment to make a small consumption table comparing how the Wemos D1 mini behaves when receiving power through the 5v and 3v3  pins. 5v: 75.5 avg mA only Wifi 126.5 mA with relay on 2.5 mA on deep sleep mode 3v3: 75.4 avg mA only Wifi…

  • Playing with a Wemos D1 (ESP8266)

    After learning some Arduino and building some demos I decided to give it a try to another Chips. And this one is the ESP8266, you can find it in eBay or alixpress searching for “wemos D1” Basically this little guy has kind of the same capabilities of an Atmel chip with less Digital outputs(9) but…

  • Starting again with Arduino and 3D design

    About a month ago I joined the amazing community of Thingiverse and started uploading my first designs made on Blender. One of the first projects is to control automatically the curtain blinds to ensure we don’t have to get up to turn them manually. Actually it’s just a great excuse to learn more about arduino…

  • How routing internally works in Symfony 4 framework

    At the moment of writing this I’m testing the Symfony 4 Framework after reading the following article and also Fabian’s latest posts on Medium.  I’m testing weather the not yet officially released version, will be a future candidate for some new project or not. But the interesting part of this research is that I already…

  • Integrating SSO in a project using Shibboleth authentication

    Shibboleth is an open-source identity federation solution that’s used in research and education communities worldwide. Basically is a federating agent that consists of 2 components: 1- Service Provider (SP) which request attributes, represented in this implementation als storage.luckycloud.de using Apache2-mod-shib 2- Identity Provider(IDP) which broadcasts attributes, and will be implemented in the Login-logic of the…