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SweetHomeHub: Home Control with Raspberry Pi and MQTT – Part 1

Since quite a long time I am working on my universal Raspberry Pi based Intertechno-Remote (see former posts 1 2 3 4): I tried different approaches to trigger/control my remote control service via a custom HTTPServer/-Handler and a simple Vert.x verticle. Since MQTT v3.1.1 turns out as on of the de-facto standard protocols for the… Continue Reading SweetHomeHub: Home Control with Raspberry Pi and MQTT – Part 1

NetBeans 8 – Shortcut to Remote Platforms

The recently released NetBeans 8 holds a great gift for all Java Embedded Developers: Build-in support for Remote Java Standard Edition platform. To introduce this great and handy feature I created some screencasts: Part1: headless Part2: JavaFX on Pi Part 3 – Remote Platform Debugging José Pereda has also blogged about this feature in action:… Continue Reading NetBeans 8 – Shortcut to Remote Platforms

Between 0 and 1 – PWM with Raspberry Pi

Between 0 and 1 – PWM with Raspberry Pi

Switch on and off an LED and let run a motor at one speed and direction is easy, but what if I want to e.g. control the brightness of an LED or control motor-speed? A kind of analog signal is needed: This is done with Pulse-width modulation (PWM). PWM is a “modulation technique that conforms… Continue Reading Between 0 and 1 – PWM with Raspberry Pi