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Arduino-esp32 course – General-purpose input/output (GPIO) – Chapter 3
I want to state here that I’m not an electronics engineer and I know the basics only after years of tinkering and because I use to soldier PCBs for my father since I’m 8 or so. So if there is anything that is not correctly explained just comment and I will try to document it…
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Arduino-esp32 course – Event driven WiFi and build_flags configuration – Chapter 2
On this new release we will focus on connecting our Espressif board to WiFi and will also the powerful build_flags to inject the defines directly on compilation time. This will make our WiFi configuration easier and leave it in a place where it can be easily configured, again in our platformio.ini project configuration file: [env:espressif8266]…
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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…
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PlatformIO: An alternative to Arduino IDE and a complete ecosystem for IoT
As an introduction I would like to make clear that I’m not a C++ advanced coder or IoT professional, I do this just because it’s a challenge, and because it’s a lot of fun compared to my 9 hrs/5 days a week web developer doing PHP and Admin panels for clients in Germany. Two months…
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FS2 camera from Blender to production
In this entry, I wanted to document what is the process of making one of this cameras, starting from the 3D – model to the end product where you turn it on and connects to WiFi ready to take pictures. After removing the support and sanding the round columns the first thing is to connect…
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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…