Send a note to your valentine “the IoT way”
Valentine’s day is coming soon, and some of you must be ready to send a personal note to your long-distance sweetheart. Would you like to try something different this year? How about sending a warm note via internet, or more appropriately, “the IoT way”. Becky Stern posted a new Instructable about sending a valentine note over the internet using ESP8266 devices and Adafruit IO cloud platform. This project uses a small vibrating motor to gently wave a tissue paper heart and flash an LED when it receives instructions over the internet from another device.
Sending your valentine a note via internet
I built two versions of the ESP8266 wifi circuit, also equipped with two buttons for triggering the two commands. The devices talk over the Adafruit IO cloud data service to communicate with each other from anywhere with wifi, and I’ll show you how to activate your valentine with the API gateway service IFTTT as well, in case you only want to build one valentine circuit.
This is a pretty easy Internet of Things project! Before you dive in, you should have a workable knowledge of the Arduino software and electronics soldering. Try my beginner Arduino Class and/or Randy Sarafan’s basic Electronics Class to get up to speed!
Demo video is posted below.
