Many small steps, one giant leap

Many small steps, one giant leap

Finally, just before the years’ end, we made the giant leap of constructing our first LightSaga clock (Technically it is the second if you count the original iteration made of wood). A lot of small steps were required to finally get to this point and we still need to assemble the other 19 out of our …

On Air: Clarifying ESP8266 OTA

On Air: Clarifying ESP8266 OTA

So those ESP8266 are awesome but I never quite figured out how to get the over the air (OTA) updating to work due to the lack of guides on how to do it. The SDK supports it and there is some decent information available on the Espressif forums, but it lacked an easy oversight on …

The OSH Park Experience

For the LightSaga project we have designed some custom boards that will house the Photons, light sensor, some capacitors for stability and a logic level converter. Nothing too fancy but a good chance to let these prototypes be produced by OSH Park, well known for their purple PCBs. One of the really awesome features of …

Elasticsearch & Kibana on Ubuntu

Elasticsearch & Kibana on Ubuntu

For one of my personal projects I’ve been looking at Elasticsearch and Kibana for indexing and visualizing data generated by a wireless sensor node network, without restricting myself in future expansion of possible data sources or types. Elasticsearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine. It gives you the ability …