Making Sure the Basement Stays Dry with an ESP8266
The hack we have for you today is among our most favorite types of hack: a good, honest, simple, and well documented implementation that meets a real need. Our hacker [Solo Pilot] has sent in a link to their basement monitor.
The documentation is quite good. It’s terse but comprehensive with links to related information. It covers the background, requirements, hardware design, sensors, email and SMS alerts, software details, and even has some credits at the end.
Implementing this project would be a good activity for someone who has already made an LED flash and wants to take their skills to the next level by sourcing and assembling the hardware and then configuring, compiling, deploying, and testing the software for this real-world project.
To make this project work you will need to know your way around the Arduino IDE in order to build the software from the src.zip file included with the documentation (hint: extract the files from src.zip into a directory called AHT20_BMP280 before opening AHT20_BMP280.ino and make sure you add necessary boards and libraries).
One feature of the basement monitor that we would like to see is a periodic “everything’s okay” signal from the device, just so we can confirm that the reason we’re not getting an alarm about flooding in the basement is because there is no flood, and not because the battery ran dead or the WiFi went offline.
If you’ve recently started on your journey into where electronics meets software a project such as this one is a really great place to go next. And of course once you are proficient with the ESP8266 there are a thousand such projects here at Hackaday that you can cut your teeth on. Such as this clock and this fault injection device.
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Three technical outages affecting Newark airport have traumatized air traffic controllers and worried passengers about the safety of U.S. air travel. Here are the facts on what’s happening.
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The tragic death of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed after being stranded in a vehicle struck by Israeli forces in Gaza, will be the subject of a new movie, entertainment news outlet Variety reported Tuesday.
Acclaimed Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania is directing the currently untitled project, which has secured backing from several prominent industry figures and Film4.
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Protestaktion am 5. Mai
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Anlässlich des morgigen Internationalen Tages gegen Homo-, Bi-, Inter- und Transphobie #IDAHOBIT weht am Wochenende die „Progress-Pride“-Flagge am Alten Rathaus.
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Stadt Bonn zeigt Flagge zum IDAHOBIT
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Android 16 e mais: o que esperar da One UI 8?
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OK Leute, ihr habt es schon 100mal gesehen, und vielleicht sogar schon unterschrieben, aber lasst uns ein Geschenk zum #Idahobit machen.
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Microsoft admitted on Thursday that it sold advanced AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the war on Gaza.
But the company also claimed it found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in Gaza.
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Making Sure the Basement Stays Dry with an ESP8266
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Making Sure The Basement Stays Dry With An ESP8266
The hack we have for you today is among our most favorite types of hack: a good, honest, simple, and well documented implementation that meets a real need. Our hacker [Solo Pilot] has sent in a lin…Hackaday
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Verehrte Frau Bundestagspräsidentin,
ein Zwischenruf, um an unsere Verpflichtung zu erinnern, sterbende Kinder in #gaza zu retten, ist auch Pflicht unter internationalem Gesetz und lässt sich durch eine parteiliche Staatsräson nicht 'verbieten'. Ich empfehle Ihnen daher als Literatur ein Buch von Prof. Norman Finkelstein, Sohn von Holocaustüberlebenden, um zu verstehen, dass Kriegsverbrechen kein Verteidigungsargument sind. Und nein, ich verehre Sie nicht mehr.
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Sources at the International Criminal Court (ICC) told Reuters on Friday that ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has temporarily stepped aside as a United Nations investigation into alleged sexual misconduct nears completion.
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Ufficiale l'elenco completo degli spokesperson dell'Eurovision 2025. Colpo a sorpresa del Regno Unito che chiama Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Im Rahmen des Bündnisdialogs wird Dr. Michael Spörke (SoVD NRW) von den Erfolgen des 5. Mai berichten und inhaltlich in das Thema Barrierefreiheit im ÖPNV einsteigen.
Er wird aufzeigen, wie es in NRW politisch und gesellschaftlich um die Barrierefreiheit im ÖPNV steht und welche Rolle das Thema in den bevorstehenden Kommunalwahlen in NRW spielt.
Einladung als Pdf:
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