Hello HomeKit enthusiasts, after my catching up again with NodeJS and HomeKit sensor integration using HAP-NodeJS I ordered a couple of new sensors for the integration into our new home. I have already tweeted about an EnOcean enabled Window Handle which I’m going to tell you more about in this post as well. First of […]
Some time ago when we started planning the renovation of our house we were thinking of adding some HomeKit accessories. Lightbulbs are kind of massively available but in the wall mounted switches are kind of rare to get especially in Europe. So I decided to build something myself based on HAP-NodeJS. Well just building the […]
Hey BLE developers after some months of planning and renovation we finally moved into our new home and I have again time to deal with hardware development kits and focus on HomeKit and Smarthome and Sensors and IoT and embedded systems and… and….and… Before xmas I have already ordered and unboxed the nRF52 Development kit […]
Hello everyone, as of Dec 21st a long awaited update of my recipe management app was published into the apple app store. Please take you time to read trough the news page for what has been added in v1.2.2: http://www.letscook.mobi/news.html Thanks for reading Michael
Hello everyone, as I already mentioned in my previous blog post next step in the Let’s Cook! implementation, aside from fixing bugs and finally make the app Swift 3.0 ready, to integrate some premium features. Yes, premium means they will be available as InApp-Purchase. Those features will include accessing the following two BLE enabled kitchen […]
Hello everyone, as some of you might have already recognised I was working on a cooking companion app for the last couple of months. Finally Let’s Cook! is available on the Apple AppStore. More detailed information about the app can be found on the companion webpage available at http://www.letscook.mobi. Currently I’m working on integrating some […]
Hello everyone I ordered the new Raspberry PI 3 and the 7″ Touchscreen display almost 1 ½ weeks ago but they were just delivered. The display looks really nice and the mounting at the back looks promising as well so that I can integrate it into an upcoming furniture maker project. Well I cannot say too […]
Hello everyone it is already a couple of weeks ago when I received my FoC (free of charge) development kit sample but now it’s time to unbox and start a few tests with it. In this post I will just show the content of it and run the preinstalled firmware and read the temperature value […]
Hello everyone it is quite a bit time ago when the BTstack LE Arduino Shield was developed and finally available at Seeedstudio’s Bazaar for sale using the following link: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/BTstack-LE-Arduino-Shield-p-2464.html In this blogpost I will quickly demonstrate how the BTstack LE Shield can be used with an Arduino/Genuino Zero to act as an iBeacon Scanner. As […]
Hello everyone it has been a while since the last post but it take some time to develops something new and prove it’s functionality until it can be show to the public. After I received the free of charge BT121 development board from Bluegiga I started to work on some breakout boards. The idea behind […]