https://anotherjesse.com/categories/esp8266/Recent content in Esp8266 on anotherjesse.comHugoen-usSat, 09 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://anotherjesse.com/posts/programmable-cat/Sat, 09 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://anotherjesse.com/posts/programmable-cat/<h2 id="idea">Idea</h2> <p>The family was excited to decorate to halloween this year, and several of the decorations came with <em>Try Me</em> buttons. The buttons were external to the decoration - and seem to be simple momentary switches (when they are pressed the circuit is closed for the duration of the button press).</p> <p>It would be neat to add these to our programmable space using a tiny ESP-8266 microcontroller / MQTT.</p> <p>Based on success of connecting <a href="https://anotherjesse.com/posts/miffy-super-powers">Miffy</a> to our local programmable space, this seemed approachable for an electronics novice like me.</p>