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Calendar 2016
(Deutsch) Der Conrad Adventskalender IoT – 2016
Shorten the waiting time for Christmas with exciting and enjoyable experiments done with the Internet of things. Thereby send push messages on your smartphone or build an alarm system with a motion sensor that informs you of suspicious movements. Learn…
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Day 24: Gift box
With the last test in this Advent, we get really Christmasy. We’re building a reusable gift box with which you can delight your relatives. Every time someone opens the present, the contents are lit up in an individual colour, and…
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Day 23: MQTT Climate
Behind the door for today is a battery clip for a 9 V block, with which you can make the entire system moveable. An alternative to a battery is a power bank (a rechargeable battery pack, normally for mobile phones)….
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Day 22: MQTT Cheerlights
Today’s trial is about MQTT and a global project that was presented last year: the Cheerlights Project by Hans Schaaler. For everyone who doesn’t know the project: It’s about globally networked coloured lights that can be simultaneously controlled through Twitter…
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Day 21: House automation
In today’s test, we’ll illuminate the characteristics and possibilities of MQTT in more detail by creating a practical scenario. In the example, there is a building with two rooms, each of which has a light switch, a light and an…
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Day 20: MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
For the last days of this Advent, you’ll now become familiar with a subject that plays a large role in the realm of the IoT. We’re dealing with the messaging protocol MQTT, which was specially developed for the communication from…
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Day 19: Configuration page for the NanoESP
Behind today’s door is another cable. With the two cables it’s possible, for example, to place the RGB LED apart from the board. We’ll need the RGB LED today because the test is about a website with which you can…
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Day 18: Weather monitoring
Behind today’s door is a very special component, namely a humidity sensor. Together with the phototransistor and the NTC, it creates a weather station for at-home use. The following layout is necessary for this purpose: Today’s layout is a bit…
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Day 17: Wake Up Light
Today’s project deals with a well-known lamp from Phillips, the Wake Up Light. This is an alarm clock that, instead of making a loud noise, slowly increases the brightness. This creates a type of sunrise, and one wakes up in…
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Day 16: A web server piano
Behind today’s door is a piezo sound transducer. It’s possible to generate sounds with it, which will become clear in today’s test. Today you’re building a type of piano that can be used via a website. See the following picture…
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