Touted as an alternative to the ESP8266, the Air602 WIFI is a tiny module from Seeed Studio in Shenzhen. Also available is a development board with USB and Flash memory. The basic 2.4Ghz WIFI module is based on the W600 embedded WIFI SoC chip with a simple 12-pin interface. at…
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Grove LCD RGB Backlight
Now, before anyone says anything – no I’m not advertising Seeed or their Grove stuff. It just so happens that over the weekend my pal brought some of their stuff over to have a play with and I was particularly taken by the LCD display. This is a typical Hitachi-style…
BeagleBone Green Wireless
The BeagleBone Green Wireless is the result of a joint effort between Seeed Studio and Beaglebone.org. It is based on the open-source hardware of the Beaglebone Black and they’ve added 2 Grove connectors. You might recall I did a blog on the Grove stuff a while back – basically the…
Linkit Smart 7688
This is interesting… so in the post between Christmas and New Year I received one of these in the post. The Linkit Smart 7688 arrived in the form of a small box about the size of a box of matches. The unit itself is a PCB with metal screen (note…
A successful Techy Day
So much going on today I thought I’d put the lot into one blog entry. So, I’ve spent the day with my pal playing with one of several IOT solutions – familiar to regular readers – node-red-contrib-ui. This just keeps getting better. So we spent our afternoon getting to grips…