Published inLevel Up Coding·Jan 1An easy Raspberry Pi weather station using DHT11 + Python + QuestDB (with source code)Every now and then, it’s good fun to go back into older projects, to update and rethink them. A few years ago, I’ve made a simple temperature and humidity monitor using a Raspberry Pi, Python, Portainer, Prometheus, and Grafana. You can check the full project and tutorial here. …Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Sep 23, 2021Using Azure DevOps webhooks to build JAMStack websitesIn 2020, Azure DevOps started to support generic webhooks that allow other applications to automatically start pipelines on your repository. In this article, we’ll take a look on how to make this happen. Imagine that you need a secure and responsible way to host your application and a static app…Development3 min readDevelopment3 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Jun 7, 2021Converting Excel files to JSON using C# and Azure FunctionsThis is a story about how you can use Azure Functions to easily convert an Excel or CSV to JSON leveraging the power of cloud computing and without the hassle of maintaining a Web API for this. TL;DR; If you’re looking for the source code, go to the bottom of…Chsarp3 min readChsarp3 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Sep 9, 2020Member-onlySetting up a local weather station using DHT11, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana on a Raspberry Pi and visualizing your data through your web browserThis article will guide you through creating a simple weekend project to read data from a DHT11 sensor and broadcast it to a Grafana instance, so you can visualize it and access it through your network from other devices. Summary For this project, we’ll need the following components: Hardware components Raspberry Pi 3B…IoT6 min readIoT6 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Jun 21, 2020Member-onlyAutomating website creation using JekyllA case study about building a solution that builds websites based on web content scraping and API requests using Jekyll with Liquid templates. The real-world case Imagine that you have a vast and complex website, with lots of pages and content which most of the time overwhelms the user with information and visual…Jekyll6 min readJekyll6 min read
Apr 20, 2020Automating image manipulation with ImageProcessorImageProcessor is a great C# Library for manipulating images and applying effects on the fly. It can run on the .NET Framework or .NET Core, it’s lightweight and performative. …Csharp1 min readCsharp1 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Apr 19, 2020Member-onlyUsing Puppeteer Sharp as a headless static HTML component generatorPuppeteerSharp is a fantastic C# port of the Puppeteer library for running the Chromium web browser integrated to your solution. It can run on the .NET Framework or .NET Core projects. Through this tool, you can provide static HTML components based on almost real-time data as server-side rendered content. Faster…Csharp4 min readCsharp4 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Mar 18, 2019Setting up a cooler for your Orange Pi/Raspberry Pi using Python.Python can be used for almost anything, including help to control the temperature of your favorite single-board computer. As great as SBCs are today, most of them get pretty hot if you let them run for a while, shortening their lifespan and throttling their performance. So, let me put a…Raspberry Pi4 min readRaspberry Pi4 min read
