Tag Archive: MQTT
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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