How to make your LEDs better listeners
summary
Build is a wearable LED system that first uses socket.io and Adafruit Feathers and then switches to MQTT after flaky Wi‑Fi and repeated crashes at a public light ride. The claim: MQTT makes web → hardware messaging reliable; tools actually used: MQTT over port 1883, MQTT.js in the browser, an embeddable Aedes broker in Node on moved from Heroku to DigitalOcean, and upgraded microcontrollers to a Feather M0 with Wi‑Fi to fix disconnects. The final setup runs and stops frequent reboots.
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- 0:00Start
- 1:11I LIKE TO BUILD FUN THINGS WITH LEDS.
- 2:11JEAN TINGUELY
- 3:27I wanted something ephemeral that
- 5:17PROJECT PLAN
- 7:26User picks a color program
- 8:27ADAFRUIT FEATHER HUZZAH ESP8266
- 9:20Umbrella Wiring
- 10:31FIRST OUTING: LIGHTED BIKE RIDE AMSTERDAM
- 12:57CODING FOR HARDWARE
- 15:47RELIABLE
- 17:29SETUP MQTT CLIENTS + BROKER
- 18:28SETUP ARDUINO CLIENTS
- 19:09SETUP MQTT BROKER
- 21:18BUILD A MQTT BROKER
- 21:49MQTT BROKER: AEDES
- 22:19IMPLEMENT THE MQTT BROKER
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