Nathan Tepool is making an attempt to make it simpler to manage your house automation methods on-the-go with a bodily distant providing eight tactile push button switches and a helpful pocket click on for portability: the CLiCC Distant.
“CLiCC Distant is a conveyable, wi-fi, eight-button distant able to drawing energy from a 3.7V LiPo battery (offered individually),” Tepool writes of his creation. “Our present demo code sends MQTT messages over Wi-Fi, and we’ve been working towards an replace that can help Bluetooth LE communication with Android gadgets. Most significantly, CLiCC Distant has clicky buttons that really feel nice whenever you click on them. (And a pocket clip so you may click on them everytime you need. Inside cause, after all.)”
The CLiCC Distant goals to be a satisfyingly tactile clicker for house automation duties, with eight buttons and a pocket clip. (📷: CLiCC LLC)
The CLiCC Distant itself is constructed round an Espressif ESP32 module, a clone of the WEMOS Lolin32 Lite, Tepool explains, providing a dual-core 240MHz Tensilica Xtensa LX6 processor, 520kB of static RAM (SRAM) and 4MB of off-chip flash reminiscence, and radios for 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 Low Power (BLE) connectivity. Among the module’s general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) pins are linked to the eight satisfyingly tactile switches on the distant — whereas others are introduced out to be used with non-obligatory exterior {hardware}.
“Due to the extremely versatile and wildly fashionable ESP32 module at its core — and the open supply software program that drives it — CLiCC Distant will finally do no matter you need it to,” Tepool claims.
Tepool is making ready to launch the distant as a package on Crowd Provide within the close to future. (📷: CLiCC LLC)
“Examples would possibly embrace,” Tepool continues, “smart-home functions (after all); slide-deck development (boring); distant pictures (creepy); music era (eight buttons is greater than sufficient for a trumpet, proper?); beginning your automobile within the morning (very cool however we’re unsure how to do that but); executing scripts in your laptop computer (as a result of why not); detonating explosives (please do not).”
Tepool is making ready to launch CLiCC Distant kits on Crowd Provide, whereas within the meantime design recordsdata for the PCBs and supply code for the MQTT message-sending demo can be found on GitHub beneath an unspecified license — with, Tepool guarantees, Bluetooth pattern code and STL recordsdata for printing alternate enclosures due within the close to future.