by Jim Wink | Apr 24, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Windows Azure
IoT with an ESP8266 (Part 5) – IoT with Azure As I mentioned in earlier posts, my “Environment Watch” system needed a publicly accessible web application so my devices, once connected to Wi-Fi, would have a consistent target to which they could post measurement...
by Jim Wink | Mar 9, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT), Web Development
IoT with an ESP8266 (Part 4) – IoT Web Application The IoT web application I planned was fairly simple. It needed to handle a limited set of use cases: Accept data sent from devices Allow devices to be moved to different locations, including newly added...
by Jim Wink | Feb 21, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT with an ESP8266 (Part 3) – ASP.NET Core Project and Database Setup Earlier in 2016 Microsoft had just re-branded ASP.NET 4 to ASP.NET Core 1.0. They had done something similar with Entity Framework 7 and changed the name to Entity Framework Core 1.0. In my...
by Jim Wink | Feb 7, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT with an ESP8266 (Part 2) – Arduino Sketch Programming the Huzzah The Huzzah comes from Adafruit preprogrammed with NodeMCU’s Lua interpreter. You can use this to program the device directly. Or you can do what I did: completely overwrite it, use the Arduino...
by Jim Wink | Jan 31, 2017 | Internet of Things (IoT)
Introduction A while back I created an IoT application that gathers environmental data using an Adafruit Huzzah. The Huzzah is a hobby electronics development board build around the ESP8266 processor from Espressif and it is capable of establishing its own Wi-Fi...
by Chad Towle | Jan 19, 2017 | From The Field, Internet of Things (IoT), Raspberry Pi
Our 5 Picks for the Best Raspberry Pi OS The Raspberry Pi is a very capable and inexpensive single-board computer that can be configured in many ways. One often overlooked configuration is the operating system (OS) itself. Most users stick to a single OS once they get...
