Internet of things

Use your Raspberry Pi from everywhere

Access to your private home server is always a long-suffering story, some solutions are the following: use a Dynamic DNS and publish your services on the entire network – it’s a […]

SigFox to Twitter

I have an Arduino MKRFOX1200 board (check my previouse article on http://www.valeriovaccaro.it/wordpress/2017/05/mkrfox1200/) working with the testing firmware, so I can publish some messages on the net using SigFox protocol, now it’s […]

MKRFOX1200

Another Arduino? Yes and no. MKRFOX1200 is a new board that allows us to deploy new kind of projects due to peculiar characteristics: compatible with battery powered scenarios due to […]

Meteor.js demystified

Meteor.js Some month ago I was choosing a framework for a simple web application and I decided to give a try to meteor.js. Meteor use the Model–View–Controller (MVC) pattern that […]

WiringPi

I bought some Raspberry Pi and now some Orange Pi but I never play with GPIO … It’s time to use it. First we have to understand what kind of […]

Orange Pi One

It’s time to introduce another board, today I will speak about the Orange Pi One. The Orange Pi One is a low cost (lower than Raspberry) alternative to the Raspberry […]

Espressif  ESP8266

Quando la cinese Espressif ha proposto al mondo il suo chip WiFi a bassissimo costo ESP8266 si è subito capito che stava nascendo una nuova piattaforma all’interno del mondo IoT. Inizialmente pensati […]

IoT Platforms: Node-RED

Node-RED è la piattaforma con cui implementare la logica associata al funzionamento della piattaforma, come MQTT è un prodotto dei laboratori di IBM distribuita con una licenza Open Source (ma […]

TI MSP430 Launchpad

La scheda MSP430 Launchpad è la risposta di Texas Instruments ad Arduino e con questo condivide le dimensioni compatte e la semplicità di programmazione. Inizialmente venduta per $4,30 è ora […]