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Today, we are here with an interesting DIY project, the automatic fish feeder. You might be thinking, what’s new in an automatic fish feeder, right? Sit tight; we’ve got you a surprise. Apart from the existing automated fish feeders, this has a companion app that can control the fish feeder…

I’ll explain you how can you send yourself WhatsApp messages in a very easy way from your IoT devices. In this case from ESP8266 — Wemos D1 Mini — Using the Arduino IDE. First of all, you need to create an account in whatabot.net . How? . Enter to whatabot.net . Add the number posted there in your contacts . Send the following…

This is a continuation of a previous article I wrote a while back in which I set up a solution to control my AC from a website. There have been quite some improvements, such as adding authentication, moving from using VPN to using MQTT, allowing me to communicate with the…

There was a time when everything had to be powered by human or animal force. Sure, there were exceptions like the windmills, but harnessing the power of the wind, the water or the sun was not an easy task. Today we live in a world where we can collect the…

To write the application, you need to understand how IR communication works. In short, the IR remote sends a burst of short pulses then the receiver decodes it as a serial bit stream. …

Once in a year or a bit more I go back to my home IoT controllers and spend some time researching for new trends and changes. Try new services and think about improving the system, learn more use cases, evaluate the flexibility of certain solutions. …

CleanAir: A smart IoT based air quality monitoring and assessment tool Air quality monitoring is an important aspect of maintaining a healthy environment, both indoors and outdoors. With the advancement of technology, it is now possible to use IoT (Internet of Things) devices to monitor air quality in real-time and…

It’s no secret the cryptocurrency market is in disarray. The bear market seems to grow deeper everyday with no end in sight. …

here is an example of a REST API for a Wemos D1 Mini with two endpoints for controlling a WS2812b LED strip: from flask import Flask, request from neopixel import NeoPixel from machine import Pin app = Flask(__name__) # Initialize the LED strip with the specified number of pixels and…