Squix TechBlog

27/11/2018

A door opener for many interesting applications? The based camera module is very capable and easy to use. And it can run from LiPo battery! Read more here:

The M5 stack has some clever hardware in its portfolio. Honestly, so far I only had contact with this camera module. Here is a super quick guide to get the came

16/04/2018

You know you can send the ESP8266 to deep sleep (just like most other MCUs). Do you also for how it can sleep and still wake up afterwards? Curious to find out if your knowledge is still up to date? Then head over to https://thingpulse.com/2018/…/10/max-deep-sleep-for-esp8266/

We are going to look at what the current max deep sleep for ESP8266 is i.e. the maximum duration during which the ESP8266 can sleep deeply - and still wake up afterwards. How significant did the Espressif SDK 2.1 improve things for battery powered devices?

12/03/2018

How to improve the run-time of your battery driven device by 40%?

In the last post I showed you how you can use cheap hardware to get a reasonable good power consumption test rig. In this post we are going to use this tool to improve the runtime of the ESPaper significantly. The short trial and error cycle possible with this tool will let us validate several …

22/11/2017

How to use Seeeduino with module to connect to , send coordinates to and visualize them on https://lnkd.in/eub4YWi … Buzzword Bingo? Maybe, but it works!😀

In the first blog post blog post in this series I showed you how can configure the Seeeduino LoRaWAN module to connect it to TheThingsNetwork (TTN). The second

04/09/2017

Interview with ESP8266/ESP32 Mongoose OS CTO Sergey Lyubka https://blog.squix.org/2017/09/esp8266-and-esp32-interview-with-sergey-lyubka-from-mongoose-os.html

Hi Sergey, thank you so much much for agreeing to this interview! Can you tell us a bit about your role at Mongoose OS? I am a technical cofounder and CTO of

24/08/2017

Next Weekend Project? DIY Oscilloscope Kit review:

If you are looking for a fun project for your next weekend then the DSO150 Oscilloscope from JYE Tech might be the right thing for you. It is a kit which requi

17/08/2017

Read about my first steps with LinkIt 7697 development module. BLE, WiFi IDE

The LinkIt 7697 is a development board equipped with the MT7697 from MediaTek and at first glance it looks a bit like a twin of the ESP32. It comes with Bluetoo

29/07/2017

Build a simple TTN data logger with Google Spreadsheet:
https://blog.squix.org/2017/07/thethingsnetwork-how-to-use-google-spreadsheet-to-log-data.html

In my last post I showed you how to configure the Seeeduino LoRaWAN module to connect to TheThingsNetwork (TTN). But this is only half the rent. You want to do

24/07/2017

How to setup Seeeduino LoRaWAN with : https://blog.squix.org/2017/07/seeeduino-lora-gps-getting-started-with-lorawan-and-ttn.html

In the last couple of months I had the chance to play around with LoRaWAN. In case you have never heard of LoRaWAN, it is THE radio communication protocol for t

02/07/2017

Finally a new post! Read about my engineering challenges with the new ESP8266 WeatherStation Color version: https://blog.squix.org/2017/07/new-weatherstation-color-version-published.html

It's been a while since my last post, but I have been working hard on improving the WeatherStation Color. Read here the engineering challenges I had to overcome

18/04/2017

Always wanted an easy way to get started with IoT and hardware programming? The ESP8266 WeatherStation is a IoT starter kit and the perfect weekend project for you and your kids! Available worldwide. https://blog.squix.org/product/weatherstation-kit-w-white-oled

13/04/2017

I'm very excited to ship my WeatherStation Starter Kit to worldwide destinations from Chinese fulfillment service https://blog.squix.org/2017/04/esp8266-weather-station-shipping-from-a-fulfillment-center-in-china.html

Ever since the launch of the ESP8266 Weather Station in the US Amazon store I had to ship two different versions of this product. The customized box contai