For my home-automation project I needed some professional-looking touchscreen panels capable of running the web-based interface that I developed to control my home. Looking around, I concluded that I’d have to make the panels myself given the proprietary nature and expense of existing home automation control panels. The real challenge here is to make the panels look professional. For the first prototype I tried the official Pi industrial LCD with a Pi 2.

I need a way of measuring the volume of remaining fuel inside a 1200 Ltr fuel tank. The tank is outside, far away from my main home automation controller computer. I wanted an excuse to use the ESP8266, and this simple project seemed like a suitable one. The software options 1. Arduino Bootloader + ESP8266 board file with inotool (+ scheduler) Given my previous software choice, which was a co-operative tte-systems scheduler that I ported from ARM, porting the system to the ESP8266 (RISC) seemed like the natural choice for me.