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Welcome

Welcome to my personal blog. In this first post I'll explain my motivation for creating this site and sharing my everyday experiences with the internet.

Why a blog and why now?

This year has been quite a journey for me in terms of learning and applying electronics. Though I learned something about it at the university, I was never really into it.

I Like learning by practicing, so I can’t remember why, but on 7th of January I’ve ordered an Arduino Nano 33 IOT. By the model I chose it’s clear that my intention was to dive into automating things at home. One of the things I remember I wanted was to be able to log temperatures and humidity in some rooms, so I decided to start small.

Fast forward to now, 10 months later, that seed from january have grown:

  • I’ve setup an IoT environment at home with Homebridge, MQTT, NodeRed and a couple of ESP32s — my 1st arduino is resting, more on this later =) ;
  • I have temp, humidity, color leds and some ongoing projects like shutters and camera movement;
  • I completely fell in love with 3D printing — electronics made it easier for me;
  • I’m all into CAD software and 3D modelling as it brings the potential of owning a 3D printer to reality;
  • Sites like Bangood, Mouser, Aliexpress, own a good share of my expenses this year 💸;

What to expect?

I’d like to share as much as possible, my day-to-day decision process, troubles and progress on each ongoing progress on topics such as:

  • 3D Printing / modelling;
  • Electronics / ESP32 / Arduino;
  • My source codes and frameworks I developed to make it easier to integrate new components into my Smart Home;
  • Using the best of cloud computing and analyzing data;
  • Doing all of this on a budget.

That’s about it, there’s only one way to see where this blog will bring us all. I’ll do my best to keep it updated. I kept this first post short so that more context is added along the way.

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