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When the ESP8266 successor, the ESP32 comes out you'll be set: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2017 https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2017 For now, you can always bu
by jc4p 11y ago
When the ESP8266 successor, the ESP32 comes out you'll be set: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2017 https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2017
For now, you can always buy your own bluetooth LE modules and attach them to a small microcontroller, for buttons, you could make your own wall buttons with nice enclosures or go the ridiculous route: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1185 https://www.adafruit.com/products/1185
- StavrosK 11y agoI made a WiFi button for pretty much the same purpose: https://www.stavros.io/posts/emergency-food-button/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/emergency-food-button/ A bit latent, but doesn't require a second press.
- edent 11y agoThat's brilliant! I'd never have thought of designing my own hardware. Kudos
- StavrosK 11y agoMe neither, but I gave it a shot and it turns out it's super super fun (it's now one of my favorite hobbies, I'm redesigning this right now: https://github.com/skorokithakis/esplights https://github.com/skorokithakis/esplights). I definitely recommend it, KiCad is great, the people at #kicad are great, and the people at https://gitter.im/esp8266/Arduino https://gitter.im/esp8266/Arduino have taught me most the little I know now. I can't urge you enough to try it.