CloudACM – Page 29 – Autonomous Computational Machines

CO Detector Hack – Part 5

March 19, 2018 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’ll be covering the programing of the ESP8266 with the Arduino IDE The first step is to download and install the Arduino IDE, go to https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software. It is at version 1.8.5 as of this writing. Refer to the online guide for install steps, https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage. Once installed, you’ll need to be sure that your have the needed rights to run and upload sketches. On Linux systems, your user account will need to be a member of the dialout…

CO Detector Hack – Part 4

March 12, 2018 Patrick Gilfeather

With many devices becoming connect to the internet, I thought it would be worthwhile to interface the CO Detector that I’ve been covering using a wireless ESP8266 board. There are several IoT services that make connecting devices as streamlined as possible. In this post. I’ll be covering IFTTT, a cloud based service that will perform an action based on a condition. The ESP8266 board I’m using has 2 GPIO pins that I would like to use to interface with the…

CO Detector Hack – Part 3

March 5, 2018 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’ll cover how to interface with the CO Detector I covered in earlier posts. Based on the measurements I did, the CO Detector has 4 outputs and 1 input the we can interface with. Here is a list of these interfaces along with a brief description. SW1 – Test Button VDD1 – Power On ICSPDAT/RS232 – Data LED1-A – Status LED H1-A – Alert Buzzer One thing that I like to do before building a bread board…