[Blackpool] Saturday 18th July

[James Page]

Funnily enough, I've just bought some Bluetooth earphones, too!

The Mpow earphones appear to be the Soundpeats QY7s. I was put off them
because of their size and ended up getting the Bluedio Q5s for an
extortionate £7.63. There appears to be two main designs of Bluetooth
earphones - integrated units like the Q5s and QY7s, and then discrete units
like the Bluedio N2 and S2, which are much more like traditional earphones
but with a fairly chunky Bluetooth unit attached to the cable. Although
they look better, I decided against these because I thought that the weight
of the unit might cause it to hang from one side of my head/neck and be a
bit of a nuisance. Hopefully they'll arrive in the next couple of weeks.
I'm not expecting amazing results, but if they serve me well enough for
bike rides I'll be happy. A nice addition is the microphone, although I
reserve judgement on how effective it is!

Other Aliexpress acquisitions this week include:

   - 100 mixed colour LEDs for £0.92
   - Nexus 4 gym/running armband for £1.99
   - Arduino starter kit (resistors, potentiometer, switches etc) for £1.96
   - 65 jumper wires for £0.86
   - Mirrored aviator sunglasses for £0.86

My 'wish list' is steadily growing, too...




Best wishes,
James

On 17 July 2015 at 09:59, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> Hi,
> Thanks Mike, I'll see you there and I'll be at the Jam.
>
> My cheapo DHT11 digital temp and humidity sensors arrived.  I found a
> library online and got them working with the ESP8266.  Those ESP8266 boards
> with the batteries attached Mike Hewitt and I are using use the ESP12E, the
> E variant giving more GPIO, although on these boards these extra pins are
> connected to a RGB LED and a row of single colour LEDs which are not that
> useful for what we are wanting to do.  The attached LDR is kind of nice to
> have as another data point and I got that working too, streaming data along
> side the temp and humidity.  To get the LDR reading you just need to
> analogRead(A0), whereas on the ESP12 I was getting success using
> analogRead(15) iirc, which does not work on the ESP12E.
>
> The library I used to get the DHT11 going is here:
> https://www.adafruit.com/products/386
>
> I also got one of the ESP8266 library examples working on the new boards
> where it can connect to wifi and stream data to an ip address and port.  I
> wrote something in Delphi on my windows laptop to listen on a port to what
> the ESP8266 is sending.  It doesn't do anything with it yet but I can see
> the data and know it will work.
>
> So I feel I have the difficult two thirds of the solution sorted, they
> just need putting together in one piece of code, and the third bit is what
> to do with the data once you have it in one place.  I wonder if that one
> place should be on a machine in my home or do I pipe it straight on to the
> net like Mike Hewitt uses Xively.  I am not sure where I am going with
> this, another chat with Mike might help.
>
>
> I also refreshed my ESP8266 board stuff in the Arduino IDE to see if I
> could get the servo library working, but no success.  I need to read their
> GitHub site properly perhaps to work out what I missed.  I didn't really
> have time to bottom it out.
>
>
> Headphones corner for James... I got pulled in by Amazon Prime day and
> bought some MPOW Swift Bluetooth headphones (£15).  I got them for when I
> am decorating and gardening, being an Apple fanboy I cancelled my Spotify
> and have gone all in on Apple music... which I am loving and it's making me
> listen to music more.  Review of the headphones after 1 gardening session:
> the earbuds are big, like too big it's a Lt Uhura moment sticking them in,
> but they didn't feel uncomfortable.  The Bluetooth pairing works
> flawlessly.  Sonically they lack bass and just feeble all round compared to
> my AKG K451 for music, for podcasts and audio books they are very usable.
>
>
> (I will get around to finishing and writing a few more of the ESP8266
> things on the group blog...)
>
> A
>
> > From: mikehull2008 at hotmail.co.uk
> > To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:59:33 +0100
> > Subject: [Blackpool] Saturday 18th July
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > Tyldesley Road open Saturday from 10am
> >
> > Note, we are lkely to close around 12 noon as there is a Raspberry Jam
> this week.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mike Hull
> >
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