Does anyone use the term ‘snail mail’ anymore? Anyway, I still use it to refer to regular posts and mail I seem to be getting each day through my door. We have a sticker on the door to avoid getting… Read More »Building a mailbox sensor solution using Raspberry Pi and a wireless sensor
Yet another weekend, and yet another interesting little project I got to work on! I often “scratch my own itch”, and this time it’s no different. I built a simple, yet powerful solution to measure the soil moisture of my… Read More »Building an IoT soil moisture monitoring solution using Azure and Ruuvitag sensors
This past weekend Finland (and Sweden, that I know of) celebrated the midsummer’s eve. For us, it includes the longest day of the year: The sun rises at 3:45 and sets around midnight. Lots of natural light means lots of… Read More »Building a custom Android app using Xamarin.Forms and C# to retrieve temperature data from Azure
And here we are again – back to temperature monitoring! I wrote extensively about this three months ago in Building a Raspberry Pi-based temperature monitoring solution. I have a small cabinet in my home office, under my table that houses… Read More »Building a custom app using Universal Windows Platform and Microsoft Azure to monitor hardware temperature
The Raspberry Pi organization announced Raspberry Pi 4 just a few weeks ago. I had to get one, and after placing an order, I received my RPi4 in only a few days. It’s a powerful little computer, with 4 GB… Read More »Building a Raspberry Pi 4-based weather monitoring solution using Ruuvitag sensors, Azure IoT Hub and Azure Functions