Reassessing Lua on the NodeMCU

Ok, so in the last few articles, we focused on what the NodeMCU + Lua ecosystem could do for us; and actually, it does a great deal of stuff in a very straightforward way. The Lua API, albeit a bit php-esque sometimes, is pretty simple to understand and to code. The…

Services on OS X : launchctl, Y U do this ?

If you are on OS X and are a PHP developer, you probably are in one of these situations : You use the standard PHP + Apache + MySQL OS X Installation You use some kind of container system like docker to manage your dev environment You install your own versions of the…

Current & Temp sensor — version 2

So ... after having tested my Arduino current & temperature sensor for a while (see this post), I had the idea of recreating it in a more compact and replicable way using the MQTT + NodeMCU paradigm I was explaining lately (namely, in this post). So I took on rewriting the Arduino…

A simple connected object with NodeMCU and MQTT

TL,DR; How to create a simple(physical !) object that can connect to a WiFi and that uses MQTT to deliver and receive messages very fast. 1. Connectivity in real life When it comes to creating connected object, the connection part is always the trickiest since power, network availability and…

Music for programming

When it comes to focus on code, some like it silent, but others like a little background music to help concentration. We're of the latter, here are some of our recommendations... Tools / websites or applications First, here are some applications that play ambient sounds or sites that propose mixes tailor-made…