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Project overview: LOLBox v0.1 (first iteration)

Sep 21, 2018
3 min

Project overview: LOLBox v0.1 (first iteration)

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, or if you have been to my talk at LaraconEU, you might have seen this project before. It’s a fun project I’ve initially built to reuse an Arduino-based board I had here (a Diavolino board, to be precise) with an LED display shield called “LOLShield” – that’s why I ended up calling this project “LOLBox”. This is a first iteration, there’s a lot to improve, but I wanted to share what I’ve done so far. In this post I’ll share how I creat

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How to communicate with an Arduino via Serial using PHP code

Jul 13, 2018
4 min

How to communicate with an Arduino via Serial using PHP code

Introduction I recently got my hands on a 7-segment display module (always wanted to play with those!) for a little project and at first I wanted to use purely PHP on a Raspberry Pi Zero to control it. However, due to lack of time (and a touch of lazyness) I ended up using an Arduino with the default library associated with this module (TMI637.h), and while looking for ways in which I could send data to the display through PHP code I figured it was really easy to use serial c

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How to create a simple IOT device with PHP on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

Jun 23, 2018
8 min

How to create a simple IOT device with PHP on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

Introduction Following on the “PHP on Raspberry” train, I wanted to create something simple enough to use as a demo, however it should be useful and it should include some simple components to show how easy it is to build a little gadget using PHP on Raspberry. I’m not gonna go into detail about “why PHP” and I also won’t enter any language shaming discussion – that being said, just keep in mind, in case you don’t know this yet, that modern PHP is a cheap, accessible and popu

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Installing PHP 7.1 on Raspbian Stretch (Raspberry Pi Zero W)

May 30, 2018
2 min

Installing PHP 7.1 on Raspbian Stretch (Raspberry Pi Zero W)

Introduction On my last tutorial, I showed how to use Ansible to automate the setup of a Web Server running PHP 7 on a Raspberry Pi Zero W (running Raspbian). I confess I was/am a bit outdated on what’s going in the PHP world nowadays, so I wasn’t quite sure of which version is the most recommended or compatible with the newest stuff. After digging around a bit in order to perform some benchmarks and just general research on the web server setup, I figured I’d need PHP 7.1 to

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How to use Ansible for setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero W Web Server with PHP 7

May 25, 2018
6 min

How to use Ansible for setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero W Web Server with PHP 7

Introduction The Raspberry Pi Zero W is a small (and affordable) computer on a board – it has the essentials for creating little projects with built-in wi-fi, an HDMI output and an extra USB for input from a keyboard or mouse. It runs a Linux distribution (Raspbian) and for that reason it’s very versatile and user-friendly, since we can use pretty much any programming language that can run on Linux. Apart from that, of course, you have the GPIO pin head to create circuits and

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