A quick tutoral guide to setting up a Linux development environment for the ESP8266 WIFI enabled microcontroller. Intended for someone who might have just taken delivery of their first module and is wonder where to start. Covers hardware, firmware, C SDK, and NodeMCU Lua.

A command line utilty that allows a Raspberry Pi to control a HD44780 based LCD via i2c.

A Raspberry Pi, USB hub and USB HDD are mounted in a box to make a neat little low-power server. Runs from a 12v battery charged by solar power. Uses around 6W as compared to 30W or more of the laptop that it replaces.

A utility to monitor a Sunny Boy 4000tl solar inverter via its Bluetooth interface. Uses a cheap tl-wr702n wireless router, but should work with any Linux system and with other Sunny Boy inverters.

A quick-start guide to getting a cross compilation environment up and running on Ubuntu Linux.