This tutorial I just published on Instructables details the construction of an ESP8266 and Arduino powered soil moisture meter using a NodeMCU board, Adafruit IO, and IFTTT. The project is part of a larger free Solar Class with more solar…
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We’ve got a lot to celebrate! It’s NYC Resistor’s 10th anniversary and it’s Halloween. We’re having a party October 28th at 8:00p! NYC Resistor was formed in 2007. In the past 10 years we’ve grown and evolved, both as a group and…
Learn to solder and help Heat Seek assemble devices to track the heat in apartments and keep landlords honest! Sign up here We need your help to solder and assemble 25 of HeatSeek’s latest temperature-logging devices. This is a simple…
One of the things I got hooked on when moving to New York City is the improv theatre show sequence The Campaign — a troupe plays out a D&D-style dungeon-crawling campaign on stage. On a whim, I decided that I…
I’m a transcoastal transplant: my first hackerspace was Noisebridge, and I joined the day they opened their first space on 83c Wiese in September 2008. I was an active member until I left the Bay area in 2011. This makes…
Some of the craft night visitors may have noticed me infrequently show up at resistor to work on some strange looking laptops over the past year. These laptops were 2 space flight modified NASA PGSC units. These are GRiD Case…
Our next soldering class will be July 23rd. We’ll be teaching through-hole soldering and desoldering, and give you plenty of chance to practice as you make an LED tile.
I upgraded a cool vintage lamp to work with voice commands through my Amazon Echo using an ESP8266 microcontroller and relay circuit. The fauxmoESP Arduino library is what does the heavy lifting in this project; it emulates a Belkin WeMo…