For a home automation project I need to know the room temperature and humidity percentage of the room air. Adafruit has an inexpensive DHT11 sensor from http://www.aosong.com which I decided to use for that project.
Test Setup for DHT11 Sensor
It has been a while since the last version, but finally there is a new release available on SourceForge, with the following highlights:
Components Release
So here is a really, really cool project: eWheel Velo Bling-Bling:
Velo Bling-Bling with km/h (Source: Peter Schmid)
Percepio has recently released the v2.7 version of Tracealyzer. This is a major upgrade from the v2.6 version which I have used so far: time to upgrade my Trace component for FreeRTOS to the latest and greatest v2.7!
FreeRTOS+Trace View (V2.7)
Thanks to the contribution from [francescoaru], the Shell component has now a history function:
Shell with History
Finally, winter with lots of snow arrived in Switzerland. Getting up at 5am this morning to free up my front yard from the 25 cm snow which came down overnight, so I can drive my wife to work. She does not like driving in snow conditions, but it is fun for me :-). But lots of snow, I thought I could use a little helper bot:
Snow Plowing Sumo Bot
This post is overdue, as it is about the McuOnEclipse components which have been released already a few days ago. The highlights are (beside smaller updates and bug fixes):
SourceForge 2014-12-27 Release
Here are the videos and results of the Mini-Sumo competition held on 19-Dec-2014 in Horw, Switzerland:
See “Infotronic WS2014 Sumo Robots are Ready!” for all the robot portraits.
Watching a Sumo Battle
In my earlier post “Tutorial: Web Server with the ESP8266 WiFi Module” I used the ESP8266 WiFi module to run a local web server. This is a cool way to control devices inside my network. But to use that web page from the internet, I would need to open up my router which I don’t want to do for obvious reasons. Why not going the other way: host the web page in the internet, and have my board communicating with that internet page? This is exactly what this hype around IoT (Internet of Things) is all about :-).
ThingSpeak Channel for ESP8266
Over the last weeks, several contributions, extensions and fixes have been added to the McuOnEclipse components, so a new release is available on SourceForge.
FreeRTOS Tasks Component
MCU on Eclipse 