Shairport is back

Three years back when I tried to find concurrent open-source solutions to Apple's Airport Express system to listen to audio remotely, the offer was pretty limited. Apart from shairport and some other incomplete repos, there was nothing really. shairport was kind of working, but not with all versions of iOS…

Reassessing Lua on the NodeMCU

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…

Creating a simple WiFi-enabled energy monitor

.. and using Kibana to display the data TL,DR; I created a standalone top hat EN 500022 DIN-rail compatible device to monitor and log to a remote ELK server via WiFi my main room temperature and power consumption; The electronics is made up with a standard Arduino UNO board, a…