IoT Class Outline

Introduction

• Establish Terminology/Concepts (1 slide - 15 minutes) - Use Bookmarks
• IoT - Show IFTTT screen
• ESP8266 & Pi & Arduino
• MicroPython
• Git Repo
• What We Will Attempt (1 slide 5 minutes)
• A Modifiable Staples Easy Button - SMS webhook

Project - ambitious for 90 minutes

Steps

• Create IFTTT account & create one recipe without IoT (tbd) (15 minutes)
• Download Git IoT repo from Gtown (download zip) (5 minutes)
• Install ampy (10 minutes)
• USB connect ESP (anticipate driver issues?) (20 minutes)
• Wire ESP & Button (20 minutes)
• ampy --port /dev/tty.wusbxxxx put ez.py (5 minutes)
• Test functionality via print statements (10 minutes)
• Uncomment networking commands and integrate WebHooks UID. (20 minutes)
• Upload and get SMS message (5 minutes)
• Change recipe

Notes

scientifichackers/ampy#19 - there might be issues with ampy, Mac, and D1 - use ‘-d 0.5’