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Shhh! The Baby’s Sleeping: Our Fun DIY Adventure in Noise Monitoring
Shhh! The Baby’s Sleeping: Our Fun DIY Adventure in Noise Monitoring
A noise detection and alerting system for baby’s room using Pico W and Initial State’s SMS alerts
Gaurav Marmat
Aug 30, 2023
Streaming Data from Pico W to InitialState Dashboards
Streaming Data from Pico W to InitialState Dashboards
A low-cost refrigerator temperature monitor
Initial State
Aug 14, 2023
Build a Serverless IoT Application using AWS Amplify and Vue
Build a Serverless IoT Application using AWS Amplify and Vue
Use Initial State, AWS, Amplify, and Vue to Create Your Own IoT Application With Authentication
Kaylee Cummings
Jul 12, 2021
This Initial State IoT Integration Lets You Know When Your Data Stops Streaming
This Initial State IoT Integration Lets You Know When Your Data Stops Streaming
Bucket Watchdog can monitor events streamed into your data bucket and paired with triggers will notify you when data stops sending.
Elizabeth Adams
Feb 2, 2021
How to Build a Plug-In Pi Zero Display and Show Something Useful
How to Build a Plug-In Pi Zero Display and Show Something Useful
Since no one makes a compact Pi Zero case + power supply combo, let’s make one from off-the-shelf parts.
Jamie Bailey
Oct 12, 2020
How to Use a Soil Moisture Sensor to Keep Your Plants Alive
How to Use a Soil Moisture Sensor to Keep Your Plants Alive
Every good plant mom (or dad) knows there are two important things to keep your indoor plants alive: light and water. Seems easy, right?
Elizabeth Adams
Sep 23, 2020
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Refrigerator/Freezer Monitor
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Refrigerator/Freezer Monitor
Breast milk to brisket and vaccines to embryos. Build a reliable freezer temperature monitoring and alarm system for under 30 bucks
Rick Kuhlman
Sep 3, 2020
Logging and Supervising Your Remote Temperature Monitor
Logging and Supervising Your Remote Temperature Monitor
Initial State’s new Bucket Watchdog service will alert you when your sensors stop reporting data
Rachel-Chloe Gregory
Aug 24, 2020
How to Monitor Your Boat During the Winter Months
How to Monitor Your Boat During the Winter Months
Building your own DIY solution to remotely monitor your boat’s battery levels, shore power, bilge pump cycles, and temperature.
Elizabeth Adams
Aug 6, 2020
How to Build a Crawl Space Humidity Monitor with a Raspberry Pi
How to Build a Crawl Space Humidity Monitor with a Raspberry Pi
Nothing wreaks havoc on your crawl space like excess moisture. Learn how to remotely monitor crawl space humidity w/ dashboards & alerts.
Jamie Bailey
Jul 13, 2020
Build a Weather Dashboard that sends alerts using a Weather Data API
Build a Weather Dashboard that sends alerts using a Weather Data API
Being a Tornado Survivor, I use many ways to get weather alerts. I made a weather dashboard that can text me based on my custom criteria.
Jeffrey Loucks
Jun 18, 2020
How to Build Your Own ESP32 Temperature Monitor
How to Build Your Own ESP32 Temperature Monitor
How to build your own ESP32 temperature monitor
Elizabeth Adams
May 27, 2020
How to Create a Tesla Geofence: Automated SMS from your Model 3/S/X
How to Create a Tesla Geofence: Automated SMS from your Model 3/S/X
This tutorial will show you how to create a geofence to automatically send a SMS from your Tesla when you get close to a location.
Jamie Bailey
May 24, 2020
How to Build a Tesla Data Dashboard with the Tesla API
How to Build a Tesla Data Dashboard with the Tesla API
This tutorial will show you how you can connect your Tesla to a web service to create historical data dashboards and custom trigger alerts.
Jamie Bailey
Apr 15, 2020
Students Prototype Design for School Security System Using Raspberry Pi
Students Prototype Design for School Security System Using Raspberry Pi
School safety is on everyone’s mind but no one more than students.
Elizabeth Adams
Nov 19, 2019
Productivity Dashboard for Devs
Productivity Dashboard for Devs
I talk all the time with other developers about productivity in a data-less sort way. “I felt Really productive today!” or maybe “I don’t…
Zack Koppert
Oct 24, 2019
Student-Run Businesses are Teaching Kids Real World Lessons
Student-Run Businesses are Teaching Kids Real World Lessons
Students are getting the experience I wish I had when I as in high school and middle school.
Elizabeth Adams
Oct 22, 2019
Raspberry Pi Smart Beer Fridge
Raspberry Pi Smart Beer Fridge
How do you take a perfectly good beer or wine fridge and make it smart?
Initial State
Oct 17, 2019
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Temperature Monitor
How to Build a Raspberry Pi Temperature Monitor
Temperature and humidity are vital data points in today’s industrial world. Monitoring environmental data for server rooms, commercial…
Initial State
Oct 8, 2019
Data Design: Inspiration vs Information
Data Design: Inspiration vs Information
There are so many articles, books, and other resources online that will tell you the hard and fast rules of how to design a great…
Jeffrey Loucks
Oct 7, 2019
Why Pie Charts Suck But They Don’t Have To
Why Pie Charts Suck But They Don’t Have To
The universal view of pie charts is that they suck. You throw one of these into your PowerPoint presentation and you better be prepared to…
Initial State
Oct 1, 2019
Making a See-Through Transparent Web Dashboard
Making a See-Through Transparent Web Dashboard
When I first got my iPhone. I developed a crowd-pleasing party trick to make the screen look transparent. Take a picture of your hand…
Initial State
Sep 12, 2019
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Data Points: Initial State Adds Unsplash Image Backgrounds to Dashboards
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Data Points: Initial State Adds Unsplash Image Backgrounds to Dashboards
Initial State provides unparalleled flexibility when building real-time data visualizations. Unsplash provides millions of high-resolution…
Initial State
Aug 15, 2019
Initial State Releases LabVIEW SDK at NI Week 2019
Initial State Releases LabVIEW SDK at NI Week 2019
NI puts on an incredible show every year, and Initial State took advantage of the incredible opportunity to exhibit at NI Week 2019. At…
Initial State
Jun 11, 2019
4 ways to stream data from Node Red to a dashboard
4 ways to stream data from Node Red to a dashboard
Node Red is a browser based programming tool, particularly for IoT, that allows you to connect code blocks that accomplish tasks.
Initial State
May 14, 2019
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