Back during my University years I became interested in the development of IoT devices and worked on a couple of projects in that vein. In the same period, I purchased both a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino Uno boards. While I did use the first on and off as a Linux box and tried to set up a media server with it, the latter sat almost untouched for many years.

In the lull I’ve experienced after finishing my PhD, I suddenly got interested in the topic again, and decided to buy a few sensors to build something more complex than a series of LEDs that turn on every other second.

In this series of posts, I will report the various challenges, issues (because, of course, there were plenty of both) and results of my experience with prototyping boards.