My goal for 2017 is to start doing this kind of random hacking - I've slowly completed most of the guides in the Arduino starter-kit, and I've a bunch of esp826

My goal for 2017 is to start doing this kind of random hacking - I've slowly completed most of the guides in the Arduino starter-kit, and I've a bunch of esp8266 (D1 minis) on-order from China. So far the process has been very refreshing, and as a long-time sysadmin working with these parts is a lot less frustrating than having to deal with distros on a pi.