Trying to get more information about the look and feel of the weather. Yes I know there are windows, but that is not the point.
Connected Little Sandwich Box – Button
Added a button so that I can make the box do something. On the WEMOS the button sits between D5 and D0 – they are adjacent pins.
Connected Little Sandwich Box – Communication
We have two connected little boxes which we want to talk to each other. Connect them in turn to the computer. Use the Arduino ide. Launch the serial monitor, and make sure it is 115200 baud Type dump mqtt. Copy each line that needs changing, and add the value to the end. Enter the completed The full story here…
Weather App – Washing Line Algorithm
I would like to know when it is good to hang the washing on the line – should be simple – right? Well no, that is very wrong.
Weather App – Backlog
User Stories I know that you can use something Jira and countless other systems to manage your backlog. But this is not a normal project, this is a home project that I pick up in my spare time. There are no sprints or anything like that. All I need is a do list.
Weather App – Wind Direction
The obvious way to convert the wind direction into NSWE is with a nice long switch statement. But that seemed very long winded and boring – and this is my project, I am allowed to find a more interesting way. Thanks to mathsisfun.com for their excellent content on this subject.
Connected Little Sandwich Box – Construction
In the April 2021 Hackspace there is an article for Connected Little Boxes. The author assured me it was simple to make, so I decided to give it a go. Our 3D printer never did work, so decided to use a round sandwich box, which would fit the NeoPixel ring quite nicely.
Weather App – Kotliny Kotlin
I used IntelliJ to convert to Kotlin. It gave me the class below. While it compiles and works, it does not look like Kotlin. I would like to take the resulting code and use Kotlin’s features to make it look more like Kotlin
Weather App – Convert to Kotlin
Starting immediately, all future code needs to be in Kotlin. There is a tag in git, so I know where to go back to if it fails. My student colleague assures me it is simple to convert a Java class to Kotlin. Tomorrow’s job. Thanks to my colleague, recently a student, who inspires me with The full story here…
Phone Touch Torch
Android phone torch goes on accidentally every time you touch the side button? Embarrassed because your pocket is always glowing? Here is one solution.