Author: Peter Jones

Call the box 18″ tall 36″wide. 1×10 or so. First thoughts.

I had multiple steps to the next step. Old habits die hard. But as it is, I only got through the first one or so. The programmer was plugged in, and I’d get a quick flash of an LED. Then nothing. Just a couple error messages. Again.Again. Chown the usb. One error message gone. I’m googling, and thinking, and reading.
Huh. Maybe I should plug g the Thing in.
…smart ass.

Get Thing connecting
Send request
Send request with data
Save data
Do it once a minute for ten minutes
Graph it

Picked up a book on node on Saturday, started getting a more in depth idea of what I’m doing while still poking at the things for now. Went to fire up the Thing, and realized post last reinstall that I hadn’t loaded the Arduino software. No biggy. I use apt get and away I… what the… 1.0.5? What the shit is being that far behind in the repositories. Right. Removed it. Ran all the today’s I blow off. Downloaded from Arduino.cc.
This is making me thinki might need to up the timeframe for migrating away from Ubuntu. I never much liked a lot of what they do, and this just shows the fatal flaw with how that did it.

Going to order my hope punch and heating element. Maybe a low-voltage logic relay. Minimal. I think Sparkfun mentioned something about doing this. I’ll look around.
Going to convert my brew kettle to electric.

Got that going. Ghetto self signed certificate, way too small, but it works. Do I need it though?
I should check the Thing, see if it’ll play nice there. If it will, why not?

I’m watching Stranger Things on Netflix with the Wif. I commented that not everyone has taken advanced Fanatical studies (including myself) in their classical education.
This did remind me I want to make a ceremonial blade at some point. Make a pattern. Depopulate PCBs. Laminate them together. Cut and grind. Sharpen. Wire wrap the handles. Maybe use some old ribbon cable. Grind in a bit. Add some traces. Add some components.

Probably should do https, at least that’s what I’m thinking would be a good next step.
That, or firing up the Thing.
One of those two.

Huh, all I had to do was change to the local IP address in the base example app.js. Super easy. Next I need to add some form of domain name lookup?

Nevermind. I changed the server name to the system name. We’re rolling.

Filesystem. I need (want) to access (read/write) a csv file. I’m saying CSV, but that’s mainly for testing. I’ll start easy. I’ll write some text to a file.

Right. Appending is working. Doing.

Well getting node.js to serve a very small “hello world” was ready enough. At least to a loopback address. Next, I need to have this be reachable by the local network. I think I know what I need to do there, just need to give it a poke.
I might need to look at my network configuration though, if not today then soon. As in, for what I’m doing now, but four security purposes, I’m tempted to lock everything to individual hardware devices.