{"id":142,"date":"2019-01-06T14:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T14:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simervillefarm.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2019-01-08T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:55:19","slug":"its-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simervillefarm.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s ALIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"142\" class=\"elementor elementor-142 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-13b1c6d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"13b1c6d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0804281\" data-id=\"0804281\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90a9ed1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90a9ed1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Anyone that has been out to the farm or that knows me at all knows that I love to do things with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arduino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arduinos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raspberry_Pi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Single Board Computers<\/a>.\u00a0 As a good friend has said on many an occasion I am the only person that he knows that is actually making and deploying real <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_of_things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IoT<\/a>s.\u00a0 \u00a0Now, while I do think that this statement is a bit of an exaggeration I don&#8217;t disagree with him.\u00a0 A few months ago I ordered a few of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aliexpress.com\/item\/V3-Wireless-module-NodeMcu-4M-bytes-Lua-WIFI-Internet-of-Things-development-board-based-ESP8266-for\/32469441553.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.16.5544d8eadGDJL4&amp;ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10065_10130_10068_10547_319_317_10548_10696_453_10084_454_10083_10618_431_10139_10307_537_536_10059_10884_10887_100031_321_322_10103,searchweb201603_2,ppcSwitch_0&amp;algo_expid=37ff6d0d-633e-4b3e-a0b7-244f7ef064a7-5&amp;algo_pvid=37ff6d0d-633e-4b3e-a0b7-244f7ef064a7&amp;transAbTest=ae803_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CH340G wifi enabled boards<\/a> from one of the usual places (I think I got them from aliexpress but I I am not 100% sure).\u00a0 They are cheap as all get out, so I won&#8217;t care if a cow steps on one, but with a bunch of digital pins and a single analog pin as well as SPI there really isn&#8217;t much that can&#8217;t be done with these little boards.\u00a0 I have a SBC in one of the hen houses right now that is controlling the light as well as serving a small web page that displays the current temperature and humidity inside the hen house.\u00a0 I am thinking that I should swap that out for one of these boards because they are far,far more robust to the enviroment and they are about 5% of the cost of the SBC and memory card that is currently in the hen house.\u00a0 I have a feeling that I will be firing up <a href=\"http:\/\/kicad-pcb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KiCAD<\/a> in the next few days to design a PCB for this project.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that has been out to the farm or that knows me at all knows that I love to do things with Arduinos and Single Board Computers.&nbsp; 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