In a lot of my IOT projects I have been using the ESP8266 microcontroller, more specifically the Wemos D1 mini version of this board. While flicking over the pages of the banggood website I found the ESP8266’s big brother the ESP32 on sale in a version that was compatible with the Wemos D1 mini Shields so I instantly added to my cart without much thought on what I would us it for. Continue reading “Geekcreit Wemos Mini32 (aka MH-ET LIVE MiniKit) Review”
Category: Arduino
Upgrading my Otto Robot part 1
Recently I built my first Otto Robot that you will see in my blog post here. I decided I wanted him to do a bit more than just dance all day long as well as make use of his sensors and buzzer. The first steps are to add a hc-05 bluetooth module and a TTP223 touch sensor to him to bring him closer to the Otto Plus design outlined here. Continue reading “Upgrading my Otto Robot part 1”
BangGood Otto Robot Review
You may have seen this cute toy dancing robot on youtube recently, He goes by various names that have evolved from various open source projects. When a friend gave me the challenge to build him one we picked the Otto version from www.ottodiy.com but with the Otto kit purchased from banggood due to free shipping cost and a better AU exchange rate.