Sunday, November 26, 2017

IoT Air Freshener (w/ NodeMCU, Arduino, Adafruit.io, IFTTT)

Great build from Igor Fonseca Albuquerque up on Hackster.io.

It’s comforting to have a fragrant spring floral house, as if you were in the middle of a lavender garden instead of the concrete jungle where you probably live in. For this, many of the different companies have created air lovers with a multitude of aromas.

There are lot of Air Fresheners in the market: from the old manual sprays, to timer triggered ones. The later ones, although automatic, are quite dumb: they will keep spraying even if you’re not even close to feel the smell, wasting those not so inexpensive fragrance refills!

Wouldn’t it be nice if your air freshener was capable of communicating with other gadgets and trigger only when you really needed it?

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