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2022-10-14 9:46 am
Hi - I'm Alan, I have been keen on electronics and microprocessors ( Z80, 6502 ) since the 70's - I know, a very long time ago, most of my projects were based on articles in magazines, popping into Tandy's or Maplin to get the components - sadly both are extinct, today I'm interested in IOT, MQTT and Audio.
For the most part I use ESP32 Dev Kit-C \ Arduino IDE and home designed PCB's designed with EasyEDA and manufactured by JLCPCB, a very cost effective option, if you don't mind waiting a couple of weeks for the finished product. I have used Pi for MQTT brokers and also Thingsboard running on Pi for MQTT data visualisation.
I generally try to add some control and obtain status of the hardware via iPad/iPhone ios apps written in Xcode, usually via MQTT and/or UDP broadcast.
Thanks for reading. - great to join this forum.
Alan
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2022-10-14 9:56 am
Welcome to the forum. My interest also started in the 70's with the Z80 (TRS-80), 6502 (C64), 68000 with Amiga all my happy assembler programming days and interfacing as part of my interest in electronics. I never really got into IOT but maybe some day.
2022-10-14 1:13 pm
Hi - I'm Alan, I have been keen on electronics and microprocessors ( Z80, 6502 ) since the 70's - I know, a very long time ago, most of my projects were based on articles in magazines, popping into Tandy's or Maplin to get the components - sadly both are extinct, today I'm interested in IOT, MQTT and Audio.
For the most part I use ESP32 Dev Kit-C \ Arduino IDE and home designed PCB's designed with EasyEDA and manufactured by JLCPCB, a very cost effective option, if you don't mind waiting a couple of weeks for the finished product. I have used Pi for MQTT brokers and also Thingsboard running on Pi for MQTT data visualisation.
I generally try to add some control and obtain status of the hardware via iPad/iPhone ios apps written in Xcode, usually via MQTT and/or UDP broadcast.
Thanks for reading. - great to join this forum.
Alan
Welcome to the forum Alan. Looking forward to reading about the completion of your current project.
There are many members using ESPs and interested in IOT and MQTT, and I know they will be interested in sharing experiences.
Regards
Ron B
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Tandy, RIP
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2022-10-14 2:57 pm
Hi - I'm Alan, I have been keen on electronics and microprocessors ( Z80, 6502 ) since the 70's - I know, a very long time ago, most of my projects were based on articles in magazines, popping into Tandy's or Maplin to get the components - sadly both are extinct, today I'm interested in IOT, MQTT and Audio.
For the most part I use ESP32 Dev Kit-C \ Arduino IDE and home designed PCB's designed with EasyEDA and manufactured by JLCPCB, a very cost effective option, if you don't mind waiting a couple of weeks for the finished product. I have used Pi for MQTT brokers and also Thingsboard running on Pi for MQTT data visualisation.
I generally try to add some control and obtain status of the hardware via iPad/iPhone ios apps written in Xcode, usually via MQTT and/or UDP broadcast.
Thanks for reading. - great to join this forum.
Alan
Hey Alan, welcome, I'm new as well, cheers mate! Take it ez on "very long time ago" hehe, I think many of us here are old school I don't even think we need to qualify that. Just poking fun!
My 1st computing experience similar to you would be writing assembly code to emulate an electronic snake on the 7 segment displays of a Motorola 6800 based computer my father had constructed on a plywood frame if you can believe it!
I've been looking at data visualization options lately (Grafana, Node-Red dashboard etc.) I may bend your ear about your experience with Thingsboard.
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