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Revision as of 14:55, 18 March 2016
Simple means of showing status of Hackspace stuff on web and physical boards.
- NodeMCU (ESP8226) with Arduino core for WiFi-enabled status board
- NodeJS server for HTTP access
- https://github.com/msemtd/nodemcu-statusboard
- Physical Prototype
First A4 lasercut prototype with 8 bits of data
The driving of the 16 LEDs poses an interesting problem due to the limited number of digital outputs on the NodeMCU: we are looking for a simple low-cost solution so after looking at various ICs to perform the task I decided to throw in another inexpensive micro with plenty of I/O and control it with I2C, serial or similar.