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Rescheduled – Adafruit IOT Day

In the 09/01/24 edition of Adafruit IoT Monthly, we announced the first annual “Adafruit IO Day” on 10/10/24. To give us more time for preparation and planning (and to have a fun event to kick off the New Year), “Adafruit IoT Day” is rescheduled from 10/10/24 to 01/10/25.

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IoT Projects

Garden Path Lights with Sunset Detection

These modular, weather-resistant pathway lights are anything but ordinary. The pathway lights are fully controllable using the free, open-source WLED software, so you can create dazzling light shows right in your backyard. – Adafruit Learning System

Convert an Antique Sump Motor Pump to a Smart WiFi-Controlled Gadget

If you have a sump pump at home, you know how much of a hassle it can be to start and stop it. This project converts an antiquated DOL (Direct On-Line) pump starter into a smart device that you can control from your smartphone – Adafruit Blog

Daily Weather Forecast Board

Build a small weather forecast board that shows the current temperature and weather conditions. The project uses Adafruit IO to store weather data, the itsaSNAP App to send weather data to Adafruit IO, and Apple Shortcuts to automate itsaSNAP functions – Adafruit Learning System

“Rooting” an Inexpensive AliExpress WiFi Repeater

Easton found WiFi repeaters during a trip to AliExpress’ website and got access to its console. This exploit he discovers turns the WiFi repeater into an inexpensive Linux appliance with WiFi – Hackaday

$1697 for an Air Conditioner On/Off switch

Hopefully Useful’s house uses a HVAC system that includes a Advantage Air e-zone system. When the system’s tablet became “outdated”, they were quoted $1,697 for a newer tablet to be used as an on/off switch. Instead of paying the $1,697, they decided to modify the system to work with an older tablet. Hopefully this post is useful to someone else in the same situation! – hopefullyuseful

IoT News and More!

Robot round up – yard helping robots and a few others

One of Adafruit’s bloggers “was doing research for one type of outside robot and ended up looking a bunch more”. The breadth of robots they found range from lawn-mowing smart robots to robots that weed your vegtable garden. – Adafruit Blog

Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs NDIR

There are three ways for your IoT project to measure CO2. AirGradient’s blog post explains each type of CO2 sensor and performs a quantatative analysis between different low-cost CO2 sensors – Adafruit Blog

Bluetooth 6.0 Specification Released

The Bluetooth 6.0 specification will bring noticable improvements to the Bluetooth standard. In the list of the new improvements, an exciting new feature is “Bluetooth Channel Sounding.” If you’ve used Apple’s “Find My” feature to locate your AirPod Pro case, you’ve used Bluetooth Channel Sounding. The improvement in the Bluetooth 6.0 specification changes how the two BLE devices calculate the distance between them, moving from a legacy method based on the Bluetooth signal’s strength to Phased-Based Ranging (PBR) for precise distance measurements. – CNX-Software

What Chip Designers Can Do to Accelerate AI Adoption

Henrik Flodell argues that “device designers’ hesitancy about embedding ML algorithms has slowed the momentum behind ML in IoT and other types of device that are normally based on an MCU.” He writes about the “3 Features of an ML-Friendly” Microcontroller and to give Microcontroller manufacturers a starting point to adopt ML algorithms into their chips. – Embedded Computing


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