IoT Projects

Adafruit Wippersnapper Beta Launches!

WipperSnapper is an interface for Adafruit IO, our incredibly easy-to-use IoT platform, designed to turn any WiFi-capable board into an IoT device without programming a single line of code.

WipperSnapper is now in Public Beta, you can get started with WipperSnapper by visiting io.adafruit.com/wippersnapper.

Over Engineered Smart Doorbell with Machine Learning

Instead of picking up a Ring doorbell, Victor Sonck created a machine-learning system to detect when his doorbell rings. - HackADay

Building an IoT Product — Continuous Battery Lifetime Testing

One of the key features of an internet-of-things device is its power consumption. Matthias Boesl of tado details his team’s journey integrating battery-life testing into their product’s CI/CD pipeline. - Medium

Buddy - Personal Home Office Assistant

Buddy is a hardware platform built around the M5Stack Core 2 which connects to a mobile app. The app “runs an algorithm to calculate productivity considering temperature, humidity, light and, IAQ” and re-calculates the productivity percentage as you re-arrange your home office environment. - Hackster.io

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Beaming broadband across the Congo River

Alphabet’s X Company is transmitting broadband using an optical link between Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The optical link uses beams of light to send data over a river at up to 20 Gbps. - X.Company

A Horse-based Internet Speed Test

In an attempt to illustrate the contrasting internet speeds in Germany, reporters ran an experiment to see if data delivered via horse would arrive faster than over broadband. - HackADay

Silicon Labs ‘Works With’ Announcements

Silicon Labs held a “Works With” event last month to introduce new capabilities including new systems-on-chips operating in the sub-gigahertz spectrum, a unified SDK for their product line, and a new custom manufacturing service to enhance the security of modules from the foundry. - EETimes

Home Assistant’s Amber is a unified Smart Hub for your home

Home Assistant is crowdfunding for their Amber Smart Home Hub. Amber is a device that can be used to get started using Home Assistant without fussing with buying a single-board computer and installing software. Onboard is a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and Zigbee module which is compatible with the upcoming Matter IoT standard. - CrowdSupply

On the economic impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on the EU economy

The European Commission concluded a study which considered “if OSH is to follow the same development as OSS, it could constitute a cornerstone of the future Internet of Things (IoT)”. Their study listed relevant policy improvements to support a the EU economy gaining a competitive edge on the software and hardware industries. - Adafruit Blog

Adafruit.io, the IoT Platform for Everyone

Sign up for our IoT Platform, Adafruit IO (for free!) by clicking this link. We don’t have investors and we’re not going to sell your data. When you sign up for Adafruit IO+, you’re supporting the same Adafruit Industries whose hardware and software you already know and love! You help make sure we’re not going anywhere by letting us know we’re on the right track.

IoT Projects

Bluetooth WFH Stress Monitor

If Slack notifications are making you anxious, this project monitors your heart rate (along with your office’s environment) and sends a notification when you need to take a break. - Hackster.io

Three WiFi Meters built for Arduino and ESP32

An art project which provides three ways to physically communicate information about the invisible WiFi networks all around you. - GitHub

Home Assistant Controller with MacroPad

Using a USB keypad to control IoT smart-things over a local home network. - Adafruit

Pet Food Monitor with Computer Vision

Determining the level of a cat’s food bowl using computer vision. - projects-raspberry

Hacking the Things Network Indoor Gateway

Tinkerman cracks open the Things Network Indoor Gateway, a low-cost indoor LoRaWAN gateway, and experiments with everything from adding an external antenna to peeking at the firmware. - Tinkerman

Smart Farming System

An indoor smart-agriculture system with automatic watering and an Adafruit.io dashboard for monitoring. - An indoor smart-agriculture system with automatic watering and an Adafruit.io dashboard for monitoring. - [GitHub](https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/iot-based-smart-agriculture-moniotring-system)

Helping Parkinson’s Patients with AWS IoT

A device that can monitor Galvanic Skin Response, Microphone and Gyroscope data, and send it to AWS cloud. - Hackster

The 603-200 Watch

An ESP32-based watch project with 4 concentric circles of LEDs (200 total!). While inspired by TokyoFlash, this watch aims to be a “fully modern connected watch”. - HackaDay

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Build a no-code IoT project with ESP32 and WipperSnapper

Last week, we added a new board to Adafruit.io WipperSnapper – our no-code IoT project interface for adafruit.io. WipperSnapper now supports the ESP32 platform. - Adafruit Blog

Can IoT Help Catch Wildfires In Time?

An investigation into IoT solutions for monitoring wildfires in the Western United States. - EETimes

Security flaws found in popular EV chargers using Raspberry Pi

The commercial use of the Raspberry Pi is introducing security issues with new EV chargers. - Adafruit Blog

Adafruit IO News

Get a beta invite to Adafruit.io WipperSnapper

Wippersnapper is a new no-code IoT interface for Adafruit.IO – it lets you turn any WiFi-capable board into an IoT device without any programming. Simply select what devices are connected to which pins on the hardware and it will auto-configure the firmware and even create an IO feed for visualization.

How can I get an invite to the Adafruit.io WipperSnapper Beta?

First – You’ll need a compatible board to use with WipperSnapper. WipperSnapper currently supports the following hardware: Metro ESP32S2, FunHouse ESP32-S2, MagTag ESP32S2, ESP32, PyPortal, Metro SAMD51+AirLift.

Then – Navigate to the official Adafruit Discord Server and post in #help-with-adafruit-io that you’d like a WipperSnapper beta invite. We’ll message you over Discord with further instructions!

Adafruit.io, the IoT Platform for Everyone

Sign up for our IoT Platform, Adafruit IO (for free!) by clicking this link. We don’t have investors and we’re not going to sell your data. When you sign up for Adafruit IO+, you’re supporting the same Adafruit Industries whose hardware and software you already know and love! You help make sure we’re not going anywhere by letting us know we’re on the right track.

IoT Projects

eON e-ink Air Quality Sensor

Unlike air quality sensor projects we’ve previously included in this publication, this is a modular air quality sensor. Due to the chip shortage and supply chain woes, the eON air quality sensor can be built using a variety of sensors and radios. - HackADay

MicroPython Vegetable Garden Automation Tutorial

Rototron highlights a project which adds solar-powered sensors and home automation to a vegetable garden and transmits the data using MQTT for review and control on a mobile app. - Adafruit Blog

Traffic Mitigation with a Machine Learning Speed Trap

Tired of reckless driving in his neighborhood, Rob Lauer built a speed trap to measure the frequency of speeding cars. Data aggregated from this project was submitted to the city for their traffic mitigation planning efforts. - Hackster.io

HomeKit Connected Fence Door Monitoring System

A DIY solar-powered fence door monitoring device. The door’s state is monitored with Apple HomeKit. - movingelectrons

Ikea VINDRIKTNING meets MQTT

Ikea released this super-inexpensive air quality sensor. The only downsides are that the VINDRIKTNING lacks internet connectivity and it does not seem to be available in the United States yet. Hypfer connected an ESP8266 to the VINDRIKTNING’s PCB pads and has firmware on a GitHub repository which allows it to connect with any MQTT broker - GitHub

Early Forest Fire Detection System

Wesley Eccles created this IoT fire detection system. Instead of heavy infrastructure drones deliver IoT beacons for a mesh system. - Adafruit Blog

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Microsoft Launches Free “IoT for Beginners” Course

A free, open-source, 12 weeks/24 lesson IoT curriculum designed for beginners by the Azure IoT team. - GitHub

Light Gestures by Timi Oyedeji

Light Gestures is a technical prototype for a method of using natural gestures (making a “shhh!” motion at your smart speaker) for smart home appliances. - Adafruit Blog

Echo Devices - Reset, but not wiped?

Northeastern University researchers spent 16 months performing forensic analysis on 86 used Amazon Echo devices. The end result - researchers were able to extract a rough idea of the device’s previous geolocation and a list of previously connected WiFi networks. - Adafruit Blog

Newark 2021 Global IoT Trends Report

Newark reached out to its global customer base with an IoT survey between September 2020 and December 2020. They got 2,095 completed questionnaires, primarily from engineers of IoT solutions, in 60 countries. They have compiled the results into their 2021 Global IoT Trends Report. - Adafruit Blog

The Strings of Cellular IoT

Brandon Satrom writes about the “invisible strings of cellular IoT” - the invisible difficulties which exist when building a cellular IoT solution. - Cellular IoT

Adafruit IO News

Get a beta invite to Adafruit.io WipperSnapper

Wippersnapper is a new no-code IoT interface for Adafruit.IO – it lets you turn any WiFi-capable board into an IoT device without any programming. Simply select what devices are connected to which pins on the hardware and it will auto-configure the firmware and even create an IO feed for visualization.

How can I get an invite to the Adafruit.io WipperSnapper Beta?

First – You’ll need a compatible board to use with WipperSnapper. WipperSnapper currently supports the following hardware: Metro ESP32S2, FunHouse ESP32-S2, MagTag ESP32S2, PyPortal, Metro SAMD51+AirLift.

Then – Navigate to the official Adafruit Discord Server and post in #help-with-adafruit-io that you’d like a WipperSnapper beta invite. We’ll message you over Discord with further instructions!

Adafruit.io, the IoT Platform for Everyone

Sign up for our IoT Platform, Adafruit IO (for free!) by clicking this link. We don’t have investors and we’re not going to sell your data. When you sign up for Adafruit IO+, you’re supporting the same Adafruit Industries whose hardware and software you already know and love! You help make sure we’re not going anywhere by letting us know we’re on the right track.

IoT Projects

IOT Based Fertilizer System for Smart Agriculture

Monitoring nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium for indoor plants and crops. - hackster.io

Canari - An Air Quality Lamp

The Canari lamp project fetches data from a public API to obtain local air quality and transforms it into lighting patterns. - Instructables

Cellular Beehive Monitoring

A cellular-connected beehive system monitors the hive’s internal and external temperature and sends a notification if the hive is moved or gets knocked over. - electromaker

Discord and Slack Connected Smart Plant with Adafruit IO Triggers

Always on the computer with no time to water your plants? Build an internet-enabled planter to send notifications over a Slack or Discord channel when it needs water. - Adafruit Learning System

QMesh - A Synchronized LoRa Voice Network

QMesh is a new voice network protocol project based on the LoRa protocol instead of FM voice. - hackaday.io

E-Ink Newspaper

A wall-mounted e-ink newspaper that fetches the news every morning. - gregraiz

Optimizing a Raspberry Pi for Off-Grid Power Consumption

An experiment detailing power optimization strategies for the Raspberry Pi. - gregraiz

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Create and continuously update the code on your microcontrollers with Toit

Kasper Lund discusses a new way of building applications for the internet of things using a virtual machine and Toit. - Adafruit Blog

FragAttacks - New WiFi Vulnerabilities

FragAttacks (fragmentation and aggregation attacks) are a collection of new vulnerabilities that affect Wi-Fi devices. The good news is that these design flaws, part of Wi-Fi since 1997, are hard to abuse! - FragAttacks

What is Ultra Wideband?

Ultra wideband radios caught this author’s eye when Apple announced their new AirTag location tags, powered by ultra wideband. Jenny List provides a technical dive into these new radio signals and modules. - HackaDay

Improv WiFi: Open standard for setting up Wi-Fi via Bluetooth LE

Improv is a new initiative funded by Nabu Casa which promises a “free and open standard with ready-made SDKs that offer a great user experience to configure Wi-Fi on devices”. - Adafruit Blog

TinyTuya

A Python module to interface with the popular Tuya WiFi devices. - GitHub

Adafruit IO News

Adafruit IO Stats

Adafruit IO has 399,000+ total users! Here are the interesting stats from the last 30 days:

• Total Feeds: 660,000+ (and counting!).
• There are over 21,000+ feeds online as of the time of writing.
• There is an average of 4,800+ MQTT connections over the last 30 days.

Sign up for Adafruit IO (for free!) by clicking this link. Ready to upgrade? Click here to read more about Adafruit IO+, our subscription-based service. We don’t have investors and we’re not going to sell your data. When you sign up for Adafruit IO+, you’re supporting the same Adafruit Industries whose hardware and software you already know and love! You help make sure we’re not going anywhere by letting us know we’re on the right track.

IoT Projects

NightBunny Toddler Clock

This bunny night light glows different colors to help Eyal51’s toddler understand different times of the day without reading a clock. - GitHub

IoT Weather Station Predicts Rainfall Intensity

Instant, heavy, rainfalls have effected crop yield in Turkey. kutluhan_aktar built a weather station which logs weather data on Google Sheets and interprets it using a neural network to accurately predict the intensity of the rainfall in their region. - Hackaday.io

Pet Bowl Water Level Sensing

Keep an eye on your pet’s water bowl using the FunHouse development board and Home Assistant. - Adafruit Learning System

Monitoring Baby Chicks

Derral Garrison built a monitoring system for their cute baby chickens. - Adafruit Blog

Telegram-enabled Thermal Printer

Control thermal printers via the Telegram app to print out notes, shopping lists, and more. - Hackaday.io

Mail Slot Detector

Waiting for that very special piece of mail? This mail slot detector will text you when the mail has been delivered. - Adafruit Learning System

IoT 3D Printer Filament Box Humidity Monitor

Increase the shelf life of 3D printer filament by monitoring its storage container. - Adafruit Blog

Soil moisture monitoring in a flower garden

A network of over twenty(!) Bluetooth soil sensors in a garden “to provide a comprehensive picture of just what the water in the dirt is doing”. - Hackaday.io

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Dale Dougherty on TFW: Your Device Breaks Up With You

Dale Dougherty brings up some very important points, mainly how should we be thinking about end-of-life for our smart devices - MakeZine

AWS Architecture Blog: Exponential Backoff and Jitter

A deep-dive into the solution Amazon Web Services uses to spread out client connections and reduce system load. While Amazon uses this for AWS, the same technique can be used while designing firmware for internet-of-things devices to reduce the server load and increase device battery life. - AWS Blog

Adafruit IO News

Adafruit IO Stats

Adafruit IO has 390,000+ total users! Here are the interesting stats from the last 30 days:

• Total Feeds: 650,000+ (and counting!).
• There are over 22,000+ feeds online as of the time of writing.
• There are an average of 5,000+ MQTT connections over the last 30 days.

Sign up for Adafruit IO (for free!) by clicking this link. Ready to upgrade? Click here to read more about Adafruit IO+, our subscription-based service. We don’t have investors and we’re not going to sell your data. When you sign up for Adafruit IO+, you’re supporting the same Adafruit Industries whose hardware and software you already know and love! You help make sure we’re not going anywhere by letting us know we’re on the right track.