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I took part, along with Thomas Grange and Alexandre Vallette, in the 2016 edition of the Caribe Wave tsunami exercise that takes place in the French West Indies since 2011. The aim of our team was to find actionable technologies and methods to help communicate in the event of a…
Ok, so in the last few articles, we focused on what the NodeMCU + Lua ecosystem could do for us; and actually, it does a great deal of stuff in a very straightforward way. The Lua API, albeit a bit php-esque sometimes, is pretty simple to understand and to code. The…
So ... after having tested my Arduino current & temperature sensor for a while (see this post), I had the idea of recreating it in a more compact and replicable way using the MQTT + NodeMCU paradigm I was explaining lately (namely, in this post). So I took on rewriting the Arduino…
TL,DR; How to create a simple(physical !) object that can connect to a WiFi and that uses MQTT to deliver and receive messages very fast. 1. Connectivity in real life When it comes to creating connected object, the connection part is always the trickiest since power, network availability and…