Yoctopuce-style light barrier

By martinm, in DIY and Internet of Things, august 18,2017.

You are probably aware of the problem: how to ensure a minimum of security when you back out of a private property in a car, without visibility. Most of the time, people simply back out really slowly and hope that no one bumps into them. But you are still at the mercy of a distracted driver. Hence the idea of a light barrier triggering a light signal to warn oncoming traffic of the danger.

DIY RGB LED bar lamp

By martinm, in DIY and Internet of Things, july 28,2017.

This week, we show you how to build a bar lamp based on RGB LEDs. It's easy and you will end up with something almost as pretty as those you may find in your favorite appliance store. Moreover, each LEDs can be controlled individually, which is not a common feature among design lamps.

Checking remotely if a display is working

By martinm, in DIY and Internet of Things, june 16,2017.

We sometimes have customers who ask us whether we have some ideas on how to check that a display supposed to show videos is actually on and works correctly. It so happens that yes, we have a few ideas :-)

Automating a coffee machine with a Yocto-Proximity

By seb, in DIY and Internet of Things, january 27,2017.

Five years ago, we modified our Jura coffee machine, which we nicknamed Josephine, to control it remotely via a web page. The idea was amusing but in fact this feature wasn't really useful as we still had to get up to place a cup in front of the coffee machine. But today, thanks to the Yocto-Proximity, we can do something more useful: We are going to brew a coffee as soon as a cup in placed on the machine.

Using Yoctopuce sensors with Node-RED

By seb, in Internet of Things and Programming, january 06,2017.

Node-RED is a visual programming language that can be used to connect various Web services, API or peripherals together. Node-RED can use data coming from a Web server, a MQTT broker, a mail server or even Twitter, but not from Yoctopuce sensors. That is, until yesterday...