Devlog #3
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to those haven’t seen my project yet in short:
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my project is a “beeper” with an eink display (like the name suggests).
ill be building two of them and gifting one to my GF on her birthday later this month!
it will feature three low profile mechanical switches, esp32, battery and a 3d printed case to tie it all up

what did i do today?
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today i added Wifi!
since i still dont have my esp32 (damm you AliExpress and your slow shipping), i wont be able to use the cool web UI library i wanted to use…
so i changed my phones hotspot to the most boring name & password i could think of and hard coded those credentials in (i dont know how to hide sensitive info from GitHub and didn’t want to add my real wifi lol)

edit: i also added the little wifi ui thingy you see in the picture

whats next?

• i will research more about the MQTT protocol my two devices will use to communicate

• add end to end encryption (both devices will have a hard coded secret “password” they will use to encrypt and decrypt the messages)

• if esp arrives soon (WHICH IT SHOULD) ill connect it to the bread board and change the code accordingly

• and much more just later on

id love to hear what your thoughts in the comments :)

update on me:

today was my computer science finals and it was 5 hours. i was pretty burned out after that so didn’t do that much today either :/
the next couple days are packed with personal stuff and more final exams so u might not hear from me soon…
ill try to work on this project at least an hour every day so if u do it will be small changes unfortunately