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2016-02-01 01:01
in Arduino, Linux
Another year, another arduino miniconf, this year, the LCA open hardware folks brought us the ESPlant, a new board meant to monitor plants, and based off the ESP8266, the super cheap wifi chip that can now be used with the arduino IDE and libraries thanks to a compat layer.
Jon, opening the miniconf
The Melbourne Hardware Hacking team who worked on this
Jon gave a cool talk on the hardware assembly machine he built to put those boards together, impressive:
Short of having a plant nearby, I concentrated on making pretty lights on the LED strip :)
blinkie achieved :)
I added my blinky code here: https://github.com/marcmerlin/ESPlant
Demo:
See more images for ESPlant, Arduino Miniconf at Linux.Conf.AU 2016