InqPortal is an Arduino IDE based library to create your own IoT, Web, Application Server. It supports the Espressif ESP8266 line of processor boards including: NodeMCU, Wemos, ESP-01, ESP-07 and all other flavors of the ESP-12x It is the quickest way to get your Arduino Sketch based project, up on your local network, ready to …
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I will never be confused with a writer. I’m a retired engineer and software developer. I like pictures, graphs, charts, bullets and sparse verbiage. There are many great articles and YouTube videos on the Internet on every subject… including the ones you’ll find on this site. I’ll try to reference the ones I liked more …
Installing the Arduino IDE There are many (nah… many millions of) hits for Arduino installation tutorials. This post is meant to be concise and assumes you have used installation software on your computer. It provides the links and the steps to install the Arduino IDE, add ESP8266 support, and finally to add InqPortal support. I …
Someone is getting an education. In the last week a lot of progress has been made. InqVent has been added to Dr. Robert Read’s COVID-19 Vent List and I’ve joined Helpful Engineering. Think of them as clearing houses of doctors and engineers collaborating to create COVID-19 emergency ventilators. The former is razor focused on ventilators …
The development is on-going and rapid. The Introduction Video for version 7 published for the Virtual Maker’s Faire was just a stepping stone along the way. Version 8 Version 8 was meant to address the change is atmospheric pressure due to weather. It turns out that the pressures needed for ventilators is quite trivial in …
Originally, I had InqVent at just below $30. During building the parts list page, I discovered a couple of the pieces had gone off sale and some had increased significantly since the pandemic started. Also, all the little bits and pieces that just come out of my parts bins were not really accounted for. And …
Makers/DIY’rs are a troubled sort. They understand how things work. They know what it takes to put things together. When they look at something, their first words tend not to be, how useful that is or how beautiful that is. It’s always, “I can make that!” Often they can make it for way cheaper, but …