Kategorie: Electronics

  • Making dumb lamps smart with free amazon dash buttons

    Making dumb lamps smart with free amazon dash buttons

    In my previous post, I showed how any dumb device can be made smart by putting a relais in series to disconnect its power source. This time I do the same to my lamp! First of all my ikea lamp on the ceiling is complete shit. You have to stand up, go to the light…

  • Making dumb wireless power plug smarter with an ESP8266

    Making dumb wireless power plug smarter with an ESP8266

    This time I was adding an ESP8266 devboard and a relais to a dumb power plug, to allows us to control all sorts of loads over the network, for example for standalone lamps. Lessons learned: Don’t forget to add OTA functionality as it will be very hard to update the software on the microcontroller otherwise.…