Self Sustained Wireless Sensor Node for IoT

Finally after through testing i stacked all the modules on top of each other and...... boy, don't they look pretty 😛  (video coming soon!!) Visit the Hackster.io project page or my GitHub Project page to access the schematic, layout, Energia code, and the javascript codes.                 For a …

Energy Harvesting Shields for WiFi Micro – Part 2

I finally received the components form element14 and in a couple of days i also soldered the ics and the passives etc and did some preliminary tests. I am delighted to tell you that the preliminary tests were a success. Over the next few weeks i will do some more extensive tests to check its …

Energy Harvesting Shields for RedBearLab’s CC3200 WiFi Micro

A little while ago i got really interested in ultralow power applications and Energy Harvesting. After researching for a while i chose to do some projects that exploit energy harvesting. For my parts selection i decided to go with TI's BQ25505 and BQ25570. I designed shields for my Wifi Micro keeping in mind that my …

Running CC3200 on LiPo using TP4056

Looking at the User's guide its quite clear that you can run CC3200 on 2xAA or 2xAAA batteries and of course on 5v. But it is not exactly clear if it is SAFE to run it on 3.7-4.2 v from a LiPo. Unfortunately the schematic also doesn't help at the first go. Its fairly complex …

Connecting CC3200 to internet via Proxy Server with authentication

  If you have unrestricted internet access then this example will work right out of the box. But that is not the case with me, i am behind a proxy server. Hence in this post i will tell you how i worked around this problem in details. The example we will be using is "WifiWebClient" …

IoT with CC3200 using UDP packets on LAN

First of all we need to setup the CC3200 LAUNCHXL. For that visit all the following links and do whatever is written there. OR just watch this video for the most basic setup. NOTE: If you already have installed Code Composer Studio and if you checked the box for CC3200 based devices then there is …