Hack the way to your future home

Slides for my talk at the Open Tech School Conference in Dortmund, 15.08.2015

Transcript

1. Hack the way to your future home Open Tech School Conference 2015
 Dortmund Martin Schuhfuß – @usefulthink
2. Hi!
3. I love the idea of home-automation.
4. That future is already there!
5. Smart Lightbulbs Phillips Hue, Osram Lightify, GE Link, …
6. $$$
7. other smart home stuff Power Sockets, Lightswitches, Media Control, Windowblinds, Climate control, …
8. $$$
9. But there is hope. Nothing these things do is magic. It's all just simple* electronics. *(more or less, depends on who you ask)
10. Contents • Overview of Microcontrollers and small-scale Computers • A (very) short introduction to Hardware-Programming • Building a WiFi-Controlled Powerstrip
11. Computers & MCUs
12. Arduino UNO ATMega328p MCU 16MHz / 8Bit / 2kB RAM 1kB EEPROM / 32kB Flash no Operating System Tessel2 Mediatek MT7620n 580MHz / 64MB RAM 32MB Flash Linux / OpenWRT OS Raspberry PI2 ARMv7 QuadCore
 900MHz / 1 GB RAM SD-Card (several GB) regular Operating-System ESP12 Espressif ESP8266EX 80MHz / 64kB + 96 kB RAM 4MB Flash no Operating System Computers & MCUs Microcontroller Single board computer (any device with a display contains something like this) (comparable to a WiFi- router) (comparable to a decent smartphone)
13. Arduino UNO Programmed in C/C++ USB (device), GPIO minimal power-consumption Tessel2 mainly JS/Python/Rust USB, WiFi, LAN, GPIO, … runs node.js! Raspberry PI2 It's a complete computer
 USB, LAN, GPIO, HDMI, … runs everything
 ESP12 C/C++, LUA UART, GPIO, WiFi ultra-small (15x23mm) Computers & MCUs ~25€ ~2€ ~30€ ~40€ Microcontroller Single board computer (bare module) ~10€ (prototype board)
14. So how do they talk to other electronics?
15. GPIO / General Purpose Input and Output / can be used as output or input / Logic-Levels: HIGH (on) or LOW (off) / HIGH Voltage is either 5V (Arduino) or 3.3V (all other) / communication with digital protocols like UART, I2C or SPI GPIO-Pins
16. SWITCHING AN LED "Breadboard" Arduino UNO LED Resistor Wires Hardware-Hacking 101
17. Pin 9 "Breadboard" Arduino UNO LED Resistor Wires SWITCHING AN LED Hardware-Hacking 101
18. DIMMING THE LED Hardware-Hacking 101 Oscilloscope LED Light
19. USING EXTERNAL INPUT Analog Input A0 Power Supply +/- Potentiometer Hardware-Hacking 101
20. ESP8266
21. ESP8266 / tiny, versatile, has WiFi and is incredibly cheap / bare modules are not very beginner friendly: / soldering and additional components are required / no USB interface: needs USB to UART converter to program / development boards with USB are available (nodemcu DevKit) / best option for electronics-projects you want to keep
22. Building a WiFi Powerstrip with the ESP12 ESP12e Screw terminals (220V AC) 5V USB-Charger
 (ripped apart & shrinkwrapped) Programming adapter (USB <-> Serial) Relays
 (+more stuff) "Debugging" Interface
23. RELAYS / Mechanical Switch operated by an electromagnet / Control- and load-circuit are fully seperated / Switch high loads with a low control-voltage / needs additional amplification to drive the coil if used with very low power devices Magnetic Coil Switching Contacts Transistor (Amplifier) Screw Terminals
24. SERIOUS WARNING NEVER MESS WITH MAINS-POWER (220V AC) UNLESS YOU KNOW PRECISELY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
25. THE RESULT
26. nodemcu http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html / Firmware for the ESP8266-family running a Lua-interpreter / API modeled after node.js, provides Filesystem, GPIO, JSON, Networking and other modules for communication / very limited resources (around 25kB heap available after boot)
27. Programming with nodemcu / micro HTTP-Server written in Lua / Rest-oriented interface for the sockets / full source-code on github:
 https://github.com/usefulthink/nodemcu-powerstrip http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html switching the relays connect to a network
 (simplified) handle http-requests
 (my implementation)
28. How to get started?
29. / Get an Arduino / Tessel / Raspberry / You'll need a Breadboard, some jumper-wires and an idea what to do / Buy from Chinese sellers, delivery takes longer but it's way cheaper / Find people to help you or join a Hackerspace* near you How to get started? *(see
30. How to get started? Remember: There is no fairy-dust involved. It's all just simple electronics.
31. Thanks! Martin Schuhfuß – m.schuhfuss@gmail.com – @usefulthink (contact me if you have any questions, even after the conference) https://github.com/usefulthink/ama