Google Home – Language Settings as Early Adopter
The Google Home is not yet available in Europe. Nevertheless you’re able to buy it in the U.S. and run it in Europe if you’re willing to use some workarounds and accept the limitations.
ESPbootloader – Comfortable wifi configuration
Looking for a simple way to configure wifi credentials in your ESP8266 module? Use my ESPbootloader!
ESP8266 – Avoid infinite reboot loops w/ NodeMCU
Developing a NodeMCU based firmware for the ESP8266 can be quite annoying. If you cause a bug, the ESP will answer with a hardreset.
jQuery Spellchecker & LanguageTool
Spell checking in web application has always been a big thing. Especially if you didn’t wanted to use available webservices like Google Spell Check due to security concerns.
Esp8266 – Measuring temperature
I’ve started to build a prototype for testing purposes with a temperature sensor.
Non-obstrusive Hit Counter
Sometimes you want to measure hits in a non-obstrusive way. In my case I wanted to track how often handbooks which are delivered as hardcopy HTML files at work are actually viewed.
A „Who Am I“-function
You’ll know the game. Someone gets a post-it on his forehead with a name and must find this person by asking e.g. „Am I an engineer?“. The answer is always YES or NO. To handle several Spark Cores with different functionality, I’ve implemented this idea as webservice for all my Cores.
Google Script as Webservice II
After having the webservice to determine the travel time for given locations, it’s time to make usage out of it: As part of an emergency organization I’m curious about how much time we can safe by making use of lights and siren.
Google Script as Webservice
Recently I had the need to calculate the driving time between several locations dynamically in an Excel sheet. Luckily there’s teh Google Maps API available. Unfortunately it returns JSON and thus needs to be parsed to get the result in minutes only.