Category: iot
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How to get home broadband in 12 hours using Amazon and a mobile router
I have got my home broadband from PlusNet for over 20 years who have given me excellent service over that time. The original connection was over the BT copper line to the house (5MB max) and in recent years this was upgraded to Fibre to the Cabinet (~60MB). In the last couple of years Virgin…
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Low Power Networks for IoT (LPWAN)
Although dilettantes like myself mainly play with IoT devices on Wi-Fi there is a real and growing market for industrial IoT devices that send data over Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). For example, drainage systems that must report water levels in the field (literally) and respond to instructions to turn on a water pump.…
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Fixed: DFPlayer Mini MP3 player does not work
(keywords: bad sound, noisy sound, power supply, squawking) I spend several hours trying to make the DFPlayer Mini MP3 player work in the simplest configuration on the a breadboard (no Arduino). How To Set Up And Use The DFPlayer Mini MP3 Player I got erratic behaviour and sometimes the chip just looked dead. Fix: Use…
Dr James Bayley 