episode 35: home sensors, disco LED hack and airplanes

CBA Podcast

After 5 weeks or so, we're finally back! You'd think this episode is filled with 5 weeks worth of exciting techie stuff, but don't get your hopes up yet. Because it's not.

Domen joins in to talk about his experiments with home automation, and a sowing exhibition lacking electronics and software. Furthermore, we talk about a disco LED box hack, and briefly list the difference between WS2812 and WS2813 intelligent LED.

Relevant links:

• push sensordata to cloud for visualisation and retrieval:
  • simple (free, up to 10 sensors, 1 datapoint/minute, 1 month history):
    • https://io.adafruit.com/
    • https://pushdata.io/
    • https://thingspeak.com/
  • more advanced, for sensors and actuators, with more complex config:
    • https://www.home-assistant.io/
• Maker Faire Ruhr (Dortmund, Germany), 23 and 24 March
• RetroChallenge 2019/03

Screenshot of temperature monitoring in action (from https://io.adafruit.com/):

Some pics of the disco LED box hack (take out innards, glue WS2812 strip into a matrix shape, and insert at back wall of box):

(video would be nice, but is not yet done - remember, we're lazy around here.)