Maker Feed Electronics, DIY, Makers, Hackers and Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Latest Articles
  • Popular
  • News
  • Blogs
  • Platforms
  • Automation
  • Stores
  • Podcasts
Home » Blogs, Featured »

Articles from Nathan Chantrell

Visit nathan.chantrell.net, subscribe and follow @nathanchantrell

Lingan SWA1 Plug in Wi-Fi Socket with MQTT (ESP8266)

From nathan.chantrell.net 4 years ago in BlogsFeatured

This is another cheap plug in Wi-Fi mains socket that uses the ESP8266, comparable to the Sonoff S20. Cost was £8.34 + £2.34 shipping to the UK from TVC-Mall. It is also available from Banggood for a little more and...

Ai-Light RGBW LED Wi-Fi Light Bulbs with MQTT (ESP8266)

From nathan.chantrell.net 4 years ago in BlogsFeatured

I already had most of my lights converted to RGBW but couldn’t resist getting one of these when I heard they contained the ESP8266 and could be reprogrammed, I eventually ended up with three after buying a second to verify...

Arilux AL-LC01 Wi-Fi RGB LED Controller with MQTT (ESP8266)

From nathan.chantrell.net 4 years ago in BlogsFeatured

The Arilux AL-LC01 is much smaller than the H801 RGB strip controller I covered in my last post but does much the same job. I picked this one up from Banggood for only £5.69 According to the specs it will...

H801 Wi-Fi RGBW LED Controller with MQTT (ESP8266)

From nathan.chantrell.net 4 years ago in BlogsFeatured

I picked a couple of these up from Aliexpress earlier in the year, I had been planning to DIY something similar but when I spotted these Aiboo H801 RGBWW units for only £8.35 each there didn’t seem much point.  They support the...

Itead Sonoff POW Wi-Fi Mains Switching & Power Monitoring Module with MQTT (ESP8266)

From nathan.chantrell.net 4 years ago in BlogsFeatured

At the same time I bought the Sonoff S20 sockets I picked up a couple of these Sonoff POW units which are a similar inline mains switching module to the original Sonoff (now called the Sonoff Basic) but with the...

Itead Sonoff S20 Plug In Wi-Fi Sockets with MQTT (ESP8266)

From nathan.chantrell.net 4 years ago in BlogsFeatured

Itead have expanded their Sonoff range a lot since I wrote about the original Sonoff module over a year ago. That module has been in use since then and has been rock solid although I did switch from the ESPEasy firmware...

USB Transceiver for 433MHz PT2262 devices

From nathan.chantrell.net 4 years ago in BlogsFeatured

I picked this rather obscure USB device up from Banggood for only £6.69, it can receive and transmit codes for PT2262, PT2260, PT2264, PT2240, EV1527, HS2303-PT and the many compatible devices which means it will work with a huge number of cheap 433MHz devices...

ESP8266 Relay Modules from Itead and Electrodragon

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in BlogsFeatured

Here are two similar but also rather different WiFi controlled mains switching relay modules that both use the ESP8266 WiFi SoC. Both come with a nice case, can be reprogrammed with your own firmware and are exceedingly cheap for what you...

Amazon Echo Alexa Skills Kit integration with Node-RED

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in BlogsFeatured

I have been using my Amazon Echo and a Raspberry Pi running AlexaPi for voice control of lights, appliances and modes using ha-bridge, a Java app that emulates the Philips Hue API which is one of the few devices that the Echo supports natively. I...

Orvibo S20 WiFi Mains Socket with Node-RED

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in BlogsFeatured

For years I used X10 for all my remote controlled sockets but the unreliability eventually drove me to RF based sockets, the Home Easy ones in particular as you can’t beat the price, often available for circa £20 for a pack...

Background Radiation Monitoring

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in BlogsFeatured

A little Saturday afternoon project last weekend was putting together this geiger counter kit from RH Electronics in Israel, paired with a soviet SBM-20 Geiger-Müller tube sourced from an eBay seller in the Ukraine. Total cost was £32 which seems very...

Pebble Timeline node for Node-RED

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in BlogsFeatured

The reason behind the last post was so that I could create a node for Node-RED to send pins to the Timeline on a Pebble smartwatch. To use this you obviously need a Pebble Time (or a classic Pebble once...

Sending Pins to the Pebble Timeline

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in BlogsFeatured

There are a number of different libraries available for sending pins to the Timeline on a Pebble watch, including those for Javascript, Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP and C.  To use any of these you need a unique user token which...

3D Printed Cases For TinyTX and Tiny328

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in Blogs

Another post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. I finally got my Rigidbot 3D printer in August 2014 some 9 months later than the estimate but I was one of the lucky ones, many had to wait a lot longer and some...

Lenny, The bot that fools telesales callers

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in Blogs

I mentioned in the last post that I send all but a select few callers on my landline straight to voicemail but that’s actually no longer true. Thanks to a casual comment by @ichilton on Twitter I’ve recently switched to...

Sending incoming call info to MQTT

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in Blogs

I’ve used Asterisk at home since around 2004, originally using a clone of a Digium FXO card and later a Sipura SPA-3000 (later owned and branded by Linksys) to interface to my landline. When that server decommissioned itself (with a bang and bad...

Switching Voice Notifications To Ivona

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in Blogs

I had long used the unofficial Google speech API for voice notifications (TTS) as it has a very good, clear voice, much better than Festival which I had used previously. However late one night a couple of months ago this stopped working...

Letterbox Notifications

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in Blogs

This was a quick project to add notifications for when I get real physical mail. This is something I’ve had on my mind since I made my first SMS doorbell notification system back in 2004 and I finally got around to it last...

Wireless Sensor Battery Life 3+ Years On

From nathan.chantrell.net 5 years ago in Blogs

I last blogged about this in December 2013 when the second version of my ATmega328 & DS18B20 based temperature sensor, installed on 29 December 2011, had just reached the 2 year mark on the original set of batteries. That’s pretty good going and I’d...

ESP8266 ESP-03 Dev Board

From nathan.chantrell.net 6 years ago in Blogs

This is a small dev board I designed to make experimenting with and deploying the ESP8266 ESP-03 modules a bit easier. As well as breaking out all the pins to 2.54mm headers it has a position to fit either a DS18B20...

WiFi MQTT Display with the ESP8266

From nathan.chantrell.net 6 years ago in Blogs

Like many people I have been playing with the Espressif ESP8266 WiFi modules over the last few months. I’ve had a couple of modules running for a while now, one connected to an Arduino pro mini clone with a 2×16 OLED...

Raspberry Pi Sinclair TV LCD Conversion

From nathan.chantrell.net 6 years ago in Blogs

I got the idea for this after watching Dave’s teardown of the 1984 Sinclair flat screen pocket TV and thought it looked like a good candidate to make a cool retro style status display housing. So soon after watching Dave’s teardown I headed off to...

X10 and Home Easy with Node-RED

From nathan.chantrell.net 7 years ago in Blogs

This is part of a series of posts I am doing describing some of the things I have been doing as part of the revamp of my home automation system. When I started on the home automation road in 2002 I...

TinyTX & Tiny328 Sensors with Node-RED

From nathan.chantrell.net 7 years ago in Blogs

Node-RED is currently taking the IoT world by storm, described as “A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things” it is built on top of Node.js and is an open source project developed by IBM employees. It makes it...

Wireless Sensor Battery Life 2 Years On

From nathan.chantrell.net 7 years ago in Blogs

Back in November 2011 when I made my first ATmega328 based wireless temperature sensor node I did a rough calculation estimating that it would last 2 years or more on a couple of AA batteries. That first node was decommissioned...

About Maker Feed

We feature articles by the greatest makers, hackers and DIY enthusiasts from around the web. All websites and feeds are featured in the Feeds widget below.

Subscribe

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Flipboard
  • RSS Feed

Feeds in Blogs, Featured

  • Dr. Gough Lui Subscribe
  • RTL-SDR Subscribe
  • Conor Patrick Subscribe
  • Docker Pirates Subscribe
  • Becky Stern Subscribe
  • Igor Pecovnik Subscribe
  • Lucky Resistor Subscribe
  • Board DB Subscribe
  • Kaspars Dambis Subscribe
  • Tinkerman Subscribe
  • All About Circuits Subscribe
  • Jara’s Spare Time Electronics Subscribe
  • Wade Wegner Subscribe
  • Sprites mods Subscribe
  • BEEKn Subscribe
  • Krebs on Security Subscribe
  • Gough’s Tech Zone Subscribe
  • airfy Inc. Subscribe
  • Johan Kanflo Subscribe
  • Hackaday Subscribe
  • import Subscribe
  • Matthew Petroff Subscribe
  • Mike’s Hardware Experiments Subscribe
  • Dan Strother Subscribe
  • Dimme’s World Subscribe
  • Neil’s Log Book Subscribe
  • Chris Stubbs Subscribe
  • Wolf Paulus Subscribe
  • IoT M2M blog Subscribe
  • MotoBrain Subscribe
  • Nootropic Design Project Lab Subscribe
  • electronut Subscribe
  • Bits on a Board Subscribe
  • Geoffrey Subscribe
  • Martin Harizanov Subscribe
  • Jeremy Blum Subscribe
  • My 2µF Subscribe
  • Tim’s Blog Subscribe
  • Paul’s Electronics Subscribe
  • Limpkin’s blog Subscribe
  • Embedded Day Subscribe
  • Provide Your Own Subscribe
  • Miguel Grinberg Subscribe
  • Misc. Projects & Random Useless Stuff Subscribe
  • KOBAKANT Subscribe
  • Oona Räisänen Subscribe
  • Projects from Tech Subscribe
  • JeeLabs Subscribe
  • Dhakajack Subscribe
  • Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Subscribe
  • Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid Subscribe
  • Derek Molloy Subscribe
  • Electronics-Lab.com Blog Subscribe
  • LowPowerLab Subscribe
  • bildr Subscribe
  • Łukasz Wieczorek Subscribe
  • maniacbug Subscribe
  • Tinkerlog Subscribe
  • JulietMikeBravo Subscribe

Maker Feed