<thefloweringash>
Have you seen the "D1 mini" range? Little pluggable form factor with shields you can put on. I have a couple with SHT30s for temp/humidity, and then a few random things because fun, like a barometric pressure sensor, 8x8 led array, oled screen, etc.
<gchristensen>
cool
<gchristensen>
I haven't
<gchristensen>
^ that thing is fully functional for $4 shipped...!
<thefloweringash>
how do they all talk back to the desktop? some form of wireless?
<clever>
ds18b20 uses one-wire, so i just ran some spare phone-wire all over the house, and soldered sensors to the ends
<clever>
and its plugged into the breadboard with the AVR
<thefloweringash>
I used to use ds18b20s with a bluetooth serial connection, but wifi to mqtt is a bit less fragile. The amount of microcontroller you can get for small amounts of money these days (wifi!) is pretty neat.
<gchristensen>
it is incredible
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<clever>
thefloweringash: i can see one of those MSP uC's easily replacing the entire AVR+ftdi+desktop i have
<clever>
ive seen those MSP uC's used for a bloody minecraft server before, lol
<clever>
and a previous video he linked used an ESP8266
<thefloweringash>
It's a bit of a stretch to call that a minecraft server, but I guess it does technically speak minecraft protocol :-)
<thefloweringash>
Someone also made linux run on an avr, by emulating an arm. It was a little slow: "It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt ("init=/bin/bash" kernel command line). Then 4 more hours to boot up the entire Ubuntu"