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Who needs a VPN? It’s a giveaway from the title of this article that this is about a little VPN gateway / router device sat on the LAN so the answer is me, I need a VPN. But to be... Read more about an SBC IPSEC router

Another Worcester-Bosch boiler hack I decided to automate my heating system after being inspired by Steven Hale’s phenomenal original work This post is a whistle-stop tour in pictures and video of my take on Steve’s method of reverse engineering the... Read more about esp8266, MQTT and node-RED

Adding another layer.. In my previous article that talked about beefing up security on public internet facing IOT devices, I mentioned one of a number of potential improvements that I could introduce to my own stuff was two factor authentication.... Read more about esp8266 two factor authentication

..erm..P@55w0rd1! IOT device security is a hot topic at the moment. Many well known websites, services and companies are regularly coming under massive DDOS attacks and are being knocked offline. Recently these attacks are coming from Mirai malware which targets... Read more about More esp8266 security

Shrink that prototype This is a follow on to my last post which was about building a prototyped lithium charging ESP8266 (ESP12) breakout board along with some power management firmware features. Having had reasonable success with the stripboard prototype, the... Read more about An esp8266 Lithium Charging Breakout PCB

A 100% solar application Since the start of getting going with esp8266 boards in late 2015 I’ve had in the back of my mind the idea of how nice it would be to develop a little device that is free... Read more about esp8266 Configurable Power Management

Auto-generate a version number This is a quick post about a method that can be used to get the preprocessor to do the job of generating a self incrementing version build number. This can eliminate a potentially boring repetitive task... Read more about esp8266 Automated Project Versioning

The internet and esp8266 This is an article about using TLS/SSL to secure an esp8266 device so it can be safely accessed over the internet. This is important for me because the firmware running on my device is http web... Read more about Securing your esp8266

Big software / little software Traditional software systems and platforms (think Twitter, your operating system, the web browser you’re using right now to read this article etc) run on servers and personal computers that have gigabytes of RAM available for... Read more about esp8266 String Optimization

The problem In my last post where I talked about my ep8266 web based firmware project, it became apparent fairly early in the process of putting things together than I needed some way to render dynamic data in the web... Read more about esp8266 Dynamic Web Forms

esp8266 web based firmware I’ve been working on a project to create custom web based firmware for the esp8266 for about the last six months. If you landed here and you don’t know what an esp8266 is, it’s a tiny... Read more about iD8266 (aka SkyNet)

Hi! This is post #1. Not much to say at the moment but I’d like to give a thumbs up and thanks to Willian Justen for providing the great jekyll template that I’m going to be using for creating and... Read more about hello bebo-dot-dev.github.io