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South West Makers (Australia)

SW Makers June 2016 Meeting

12/6/2016

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It was a high tech meeting, with electronics flowing out across the tables. Apart from the usual chit-chat, most of the afternoon centred on cheap ESP2866 based chips.  We had things like:
  • plain ESP2866 boards
  • NodeMCU
  • Witty Cloud development boards.  These are very handy boards and a GREAT way to start playing with ESP2866 tech.

Some of the software used:
  • ESP Easy - easy to use web based firmware image for the ESP2866
  • Node-Red - MQTT based message handling - runs on a RPi
  • Arduino IDE - used to program the above ESP2866 boards
  • Grafana - drag and drop web based graphing software - runs on a RPi
  • InfluxDB - easy to use DB - runs on RPi 
  • MQTTfx - Java based MQTT client/dev. tool

Electronics everywhere.  Solder irons where running hot!
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Witty Cloud Dev board.  It comes with a programming base board.  Below, it's been removed to be used on another board.
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Plain ESP2866 board soldered onto a breakout board.  As it doesn't come with a programming jack, the board has been plugged into a Witty Cloud dev programmer.
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Stephens ESP2866 enhanced Mousetrap.  This will send a notification to his mobile when a mouse has been caught.
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Grafana tracking room temperature, humidity, light levels and voltage.
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If you laser cut a solid wooden sheet very finely, then it can be rolled into different shapes.  Someone has written a Inkscape plugin to automate the design.  I entered in three values:  100mm wide x 100mm deep x 50mm high, and it spat out DXF files that the laser cutter can then use to cut out the shape.
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Here is an action shot of the Raspberry Pi based Macro photography rig
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The seismograph has progressed, with a lot more parts printed out.  Members can read more on this soon on the SW Maker Forum
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