Kid's Eye and Energy Safe Smart TV - Part 2 Sometimes I feel, kids do this just to irritate us. Or may be, we always have a prioritized list of problems in our subconscious mind. When we solve the top one, the next one pops up and gets highlighted. It is indeed never ending. Few extra hours of running TV will hardly make any difference in m 9 Jul 2020 · 5 min read
Kid's Eye Safe Smart TV - Part 1 Outside of home COVID-19. Inside at home COVID-16. Whole world is fighting against COVID-19. But for COVID-16, I am all alone. I am tired of saying "please stay away from the screen". So thought of this concept project to avoid brain infection at home. By the way, I call two of my kids (age 1 and 6 19 Jun 2020 · 4 min read
Internet enabled (IOT) smoke alarm with SMS notification using esp8266, MQ2, ThingSpeak and Twilio ESP8266 based Internet enabled (IOT) smoke and fire alarm to send SMS notification (Twilio) and to trigger alarm with flashing red LED if it detects smoke and leakage of combustible gas using MQ2 gas sensor. Also ThingSpeak analytics is a great bonus. 4 Sept 2017 · 7 min read
IOT - Home Automation project using Geofencing, MQTT, ESP8266 and MycroPython A home automation project that maps switching on/off of appliances with your entry/exit of a geofence (virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area). Step into a cool room without having to wait for the air conditioning to start functioning? Watch the garage door open as you drive in. 8 May 2017 · 7 min read
Home Automation - Internet of Things - MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport), ESP8266 and MycroPython This is my first post on home automation. As a 'Hello World' project, switching on/off a bulb is a common use case. This post is not an exception. But to spice it up, we'll use MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) - a machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IOT) connectivity protocol and an android ap 22 Mar 2017 · 6 min read
