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How to use an ESP8266 with Johnny-Five

by Christopher Hiller

I wrote this short tutorial for a PDXNode “Nodebots” hackathon. It should work on Windows, Mac, and Linux boxes. I'm reposting it here, since it may be useful.

Prerequisite Software

  • Node.js v8.x
  • Arduino IDE v1.8.5
  • CP2104 driver (found linked here; if your dev board needs a

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node.js, esp8266, arduino, javascript, tutorial
Jul 30, 2018

Optimizing Mocha's Builds with Travis CI's Build Stages

by Christopher Hiller

A little less than a year ago, Travis CI introduced a beta feature, Build Stages.
Could it be maintainers in my world (that world being “userland tooling and libraries for Node.js”) don’t even know Build Stages are a Thing? Despite the overwhelming popularity of Travis CI amongst OSS

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mocha, travis-ci, ci, tutorial
Apr 09, 2018

Get on the Good Foot with MicroPython on the ESP32, Part 2 of 2

by Christopher Hiller

In the first part of this excruciating tutorial, I taught the reader how to begin with MicroPython on an ESP32-based development board. We:

  1. Flashed the board
  2. Frolicked in the REPL
  3. Configured WiFi
  4. Uploaded scripts
  5. Build a circuit with a DS18B20 1-Wire temperature sensor
  6. Used MicroPython to read the temperature

In

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micropython, python, mqtt, tutorial, watson
Jan 25, 2018

Get on the Good Foot with MicroPython on the ESP32, Part 1 of 2

by Christopher Hiller

I’m going to show you how to turn on your funk motor get started with MicroPython on an Espressif ESP32 development board. In this first part of this tutorial, I’ll show you how to:

  • Get up & running with MicroPython on the ESP32
  • Connect to WiFi
  • Upload scripts

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micropython, python, esp32, tutorial, sensor
Jan 08, 2018

How to Build MediaElch from Source

by Christopher Hiller

MediaElch is an excellent, free, cross-platform tool for managing a media library (Kodi users take note).

This short tutorial will explain how to build MediaElch from source. Nightly source tarballs/builds are available on the community site for donating users. There's also a mirror on GitHub, but it hasn't been

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macos, tutorial
Jul 25, 2016

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"boneskull" is the alias of Christopher Hiller. This is his blog. Maintainer of Mocha, a JS testing framework. Dev Advocate in Node.js @ IBM. Shenanigans & opinions his own. Also a lizard person.

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