
Harken back to the last time you found yourself trick-or-treating. You’re dressed in an amazing costume, you’ve warmed up your “Trick or treat!” call, you rap on the door — and oh no! Even though the house still has the orange glowy lights on and it’s Jack-O-Lantern flutteringly lit by a candle, they’re out o candy! If you’re not a treat giver and not a treat taker, let’s make sure you never run out of candy with this WiFi Candy Bowl Monitor from Tony DiCola via the Adafruit Learning System, featuring the Adafruit METRO 328 Fully Assembled – Arduino IDE compatible:
Build this candy bowl you can monitor remotely over a WiFi network so trick-or-treaters never leave your home empty handed. A simple infrared light sensor detects when the bowl is empty or full, and a CC3000 WiFi chip exposes the sensor data to your wireless network. You can telnet to a simple server running on the Arduino and ask it if the bowl is full of candy!
This tutorial is a great demo of using the CC3000 breakout/shield in server mode, and also with mDNS so you don’t need to know the IP address of the module!
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