Connected Little Boxes web flashing now live

Well, that was fun. One thing I’ve always said about tricky projects is sometimes you have to “go and live there” to solve the problem. Well, that’s where I’ve been for the last month or so. I’ve been grappling with the JavaScript serial interface and the espytool with the aim of creating a website that can directly flash my Connected Little Boxes software onto a brand new ESP8266 or ESP32 device.

And I’ve finally gone and done it. If you want to put my software onto one of your devices (I’ve tested it with Wemos D1 Mini and Wemos 1 ESP32) you can go here, plug your device into your PC or laptop and then flash my software into it. For this to work you have to be using a Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser.

I’ve also created a simple terminal (called Simpleterm) that you can use to configure a Connected Little Box from your browser. You can find Simpleterm here. You can use Simpleterm to talk to any device that uses a serial port.

The Connected Little Boxes website will be further developed over the next few weeks to add more projects. I’d love to know what you think. And it’s nice to be back in the blog…