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Month: April 2017

Garden Data Collection

April 30, 2017October 29, 2020 Peter ScargillGrafana, InFluxDB, Node, Node Red, node-red-dashboard63 Comments on Garden Data Collection

This entry is all about InfluxDB, Grafana and a cute little Bluetooth garden sensor! Some time ago a pal of mine and I did some swaps of spare kit and I ended up with a Mi Flora sensor.  A rather pleasing looking device,  the MI Flora has a 3v lithium…

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NanoPi Neo 2

April 29, 2017May 9, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, Nanopi Neo 2109 Comments on NanoPi Neo 2

You may well have read my review of the NanoPi NEO back in August 2016 – a nice little H3 unit available in two versions, 256Meg and 512Meg RAM. Well, the new unit has an H5 64-bit processor and comes with 512MB RAM and although there is only one USB…

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RTK.GPIO Board

April 19, 2017 Peter ScargillRTK.GPIO3 Comments on RTK.GPIO Board

I was recently given the opportunity thanks to a good friend, to check out the RTK.GPIO board, a small PCB with microUSB socket which promises to emulate the IO of a Raspberry Pi. The board, sure enough has a Raspberry Pi connector looking remarkably similar to the Pi with 3v3…

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Summer Migration

April 13, 2017 Peter ScargillTravel11 Comments on Summer Migration

As Maureen and I start our summer migration to southern Spain, don’t expect anything new in here until around 17th – but of course – people are commenting constantly on various blog entries so I do hope you’re registered so you won’t miss anything. I’m quiet excited, when we get…

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ESP12S

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 Peter Scargillesp12S, ESP826623 Comments on ESP12S

I’m looking forward to trying out the new ESP12-S – this one apparently has a better antenna – and by the look of the schematic (see page 15 – thanks Alexander) the resistors on reset, GPI))0,2 and 15 are already there. That should simplify layout somewhat! ai-thinker.com – www.ai-thinker.com/uploadfile/2016/0909/20160909073755898.pdf Hmm,…

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Espruino For You Sir

April 11, 2017April 12, 2017 Peter ScargillGeneral19 Comments on Espruino For You Sir

As a once-dedicated C programmer (I learned with the K&R book) I originally dismissed Javascript as an interpreted toy (great for websites of course), that is until I started playing with Node-Red. At that point, after much struggle, I started to get reasonably good with it and once I got…

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File Share Quickies

April 7, 2017April 8, 2017 Peter Scargillhfs, ngrok6 Comments on File Share Quickies

Following on from an initial comment by Keith Howell in the blog about NGROK, Antonio and I were chatting today about TKaiser’s little testing script and I wanted to share something with him. Skype of course is useless at this unless it’s a very small file – but we’ve used…

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A Question of Lifespan

April 7, 2017June 21, 2017 Peter ScargillGeneral142 Comments on A Question of Lifespan

Here we started a conversation about SD Lifespan. How can we make our SBC projects run for longer? In comments I’ve seen elsewhere, people seem to think it is OK that a Pi may well fail within a year due to SD – I don’t think that is even REMOTELY…

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Raspberry Pi 3 Serial

April 3, 2017 Peter ScargillRaspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 341 Comments on Raspberry Pi 3 Serial

Just bought a new Raspberry Pi 3 with WIFI and Bluetooth?  Using it in a project with serial? Happy? Well, you might not be so happy when you find out what I just found out.  I had my Node-Red project that has been controlling the house for around 18 months…

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Microwave for the Weekend

April 2, 2017April 30, 2017 Peter ScargillESP8266, microwave, RCWL-051636 Comments on Microwave for the Weekend

If you read the blog about the Maker Faire, I just came back with a bag of goodies and one of them is a microwave movement sensor. Not the two-board solution I discussed a while ago that never really worked – this is a small, neat single board called an…

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Newcastle Maker Faire

April 1, 2017April 2, 2017 Peter ScargillGeneral7 Comments on Newcastle Maker Faire

What a great day. Newcastle has an annual Maker Faire and it is on this weekend – and what a faire it is. I headed off first thing to get some parking and was pleased to find that Newcastle College had some cheap parking – £4 for the day. I…

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