Swapnanil Dutta

This article is about the first overnight Hackathon I attended as team Pseudo Automata with members Debdut Goswami , Aniket Mitra , Sayan Kundu and myself .   What is a Hackathon in the first place? An idea makes an entrepreneur, but a smart financial sense builds a successful entrepreneur. 'Hackathon' comprises two words: 'Hack', which means doing clever programming and 'Marathon', which marks an event of endurance. It is a competition where participants try and use technology to hack into real-world problems.                  It is often told to be a 'social coding' event that brings young and bright computer programmers together to contribute to the digital revolution. With risk management, trading, investing, personal finance, Big Data, retail banking, regulatory compliance, mobile payments and enterprise social as some of the heads.         ...

In this project, we will be using NodeMCU ESP8266, DHT11 Sensor and ThinkSpeak Server with a WiFi connection. Introduction to Resources: NodeMCU ESP8266: NodeMCU is an open-source LUA language-based firmware developed for ESP8266 wifi chip, although many students make the mistake of thinking the ESP8266 to be the entire chip name whereas it is just the WiFi module. By exploring functionality with ESP8266 chip, NodeMCU firmware comes with ESP8266 Development board/kit i.e. NodeMCU Development board. NodeMCU Dev Kit/board consist of ESP8266 wifi enabled chip. The  ESP8266  is a low-cost WiFi chip developed by Espressif Systems with TCP/IP protocol. Here fo this project I've used Version2 (V2) NodeMCU Dev Kit i.e. NodeMCU Development Board v1.0 (Version2) , although there isn't much significant change from its predecessors. I've used Arduino IDE if you want you may use ESPlorer IDE also. The primary difference between them is a programming language difference we...