Arduino
Installing the Arduino IDE on Windows 10
| 23 August 2017
In earlier posts on installing the Arduino IDE on your computer we only talked about installing it on Linux. For completeness, we will be installing the IDE on
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Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT server: secure MQTT communication using TLS
| 22 July 2017
In the previous blog post “IoT server: Mosquitto and Node Red on Raspberry Pi” we installed the Mosquitto MQTT broker and restricted access by requiring passwords for the
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Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT server: Mosquitto and Node Red on Raspberry Pi
| 20 June 2017
Setting up your own local, private and secure ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) server is easy with Mosquitto, Node Red and a Raspberry Pi. Sometimes this route is preferable
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Arduino
Arduino breathalyzer: DIY alcohol tester with MQ-3 gas sensor and OLED display
| 12 April 2017
One of the fun things about Arduino is the availability of many types of sensors. With those sensors you are able to measure and detect about anything. Most of them
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Arduino
Adding a 128×64 pixels white OLED display to your Arduino project
| 1 April 2017
Nowadays, OLED screens for electronics projects are very affordable. They come in many shapes and sizes. Some are monochrome or two color but you can also get full
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Arduino
Glediator with 5×8 RGB LED WS2812B Arduino NeoPixel shield
| 21 March 2017
Maybe you are already familiar with the WS2812B RGB LEDs, also known as ‘NeoPixels’. There are shields available for Arduino which have 40 of those individually addressable LEDs in a
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