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It Works! Monitor Energy Use

  Yippee!! I clamped the CTs on the incoming power cables: Attached the CTs to the Energy Monitor: Plug in …Continue reading →

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Porting energyic_spi.cpp (Arduino Lib) to Circuit Python

I’m having the best time with Python.  It is a very easy language to use and it’s interpretive nature makes …Continue reading →

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Using mqtt on Circuit Python

Now that I have a Circuit Python library for the ATM90e26, I need an mqtt library.  I didn’t find one …Continue reading →

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New! Improved! The Energy Monitor is Running Circuit Python

This post is about evolving the energy monitor firmware to use Python instead of the Arduino IDE.  It’s been awhile …Continue reading →

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Sacrificial Draft of The HappyDay Energy Monitor Schematic and Layout.

My goal is to install energy monitors in and around my neighbor’s breakout boxes.  Even at it’s simplest install, mucking …Continue reading →

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(Yet Another) Update to MakeDIgikeyBoM

This is a short post to document an evolution of MakeDigikeyBoM that was necessary to support creating the BoM for …Continue reading →

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Testing the 120VAC -> 3.3VDC Circuit of the HappyDay Energy Monitor PCB

When we last left this narrative about the building of the HappyDay Energy Monitor PCB, I was not able to …Continue reading →

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Simplifying the Schematic Design to Part Ordering Workflow: Using Octopart’s...

Here’s the ironic bummer of it all.  I have been watching Adafruit/Digikey’s excellent “All The Internet of Things” videos.  Ironic, …Continue reading →

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Using Ajax to get to Energy Readings Stored on Raspberry Pi

The project I am working on uses a browser page – I am developing on the Chrome browser as the …Continue reading →

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RFM69 on CircuitPython

I am excited to see a library for the RFM69 for CircuitPython from Adafruit.  While I want to use LoRa, …Continue reading →

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