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IoT Starter Kit for Makers

There are so many situations where you’d want to add automation to an electrical appliance, remotely control it or to keep check on it in real time. You’d probably start by making an Arduino based hardware device with needed components / modules. Programming firmware to read values and take actions based on those values, or just publish the values online service to access them from anywhere. Last part will be …

Drawing Rotated Lines and Bitmaps with Arduino

Often you need to draw a line at certain angle, and you find it hard to recall the math you learned in school to do this calculation. Same was the case with me recently when I was working on DashPanel-Arduino project. First, I searched for ready to use snippet someone posted online, but I was out of luck. As the last resort, I looked up actual equation and converted it …

Project DashPanel-Arduino

Starting a new open source project DashPanel-Arduino. The aim is to develop a low-cost, easy to make gadget to show usable info for trip. It uses Arduino framework on ESP8266 WiFi enabled microcontroller. The list of components is quite short at the moment, 1x ESP8266 ModeMCU compatible DevKit 1x GPS module – blox NEO M6 2x OLED 0.96″ displays – I2C interface 2x DS1820 temperature sensors The initial version features …

tilt-shift photography of HTML codes

Font Converter for Arduino

Currently working on a DIY project for my SUV where I needed to use ESP8266 WiFi enabled microcontroller with two tiny I2C displays and a GPS. I found a great display library by Daniel who goes by the name Squix, known for sharing Weather Station and other awesome open source projects. If you’re into DIY embedded hardware, do check out his blog https://blog.squix.org/ Squix’s display library can use font generated …