Hydration Tracking Project Idea (Help?)

What are you planning on doing with the Wi-Fi side of it if anything ?

To get started you may want to think of breaking this down into a number of simpler steps e.g.:

- reading the state of a switch as an input

- controlling LEDs as outputs

- using a timer to keep track of the time interval

- communicating over Wi-Fi

Jeremy Blum did a tutorial series here on Arduino which may be of some help to get you started

Jeremy Blum Arduino Tutorials

He's since published a book covering similar ground, which was recently revised.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Exploring+Arduino%3A+Tools+and+Techniques+for+Engineering+Wizardry%2C+2nd+Edition-p-97811194…

There is a resource site here with the videos for the book:

https://www.exploringarduino.com/content2/

Later on, if you want to start using the Wi-Fi aspect you may want to get yourself a copy of Tom Igoe's 'Making Things Talk'.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031369.do

Thank you for the post, and the great resources!

For the Wi-Fi I think it would be a great option to interface with some sort of back end that can track the input and plot it out - perhaps like a spreadsheet.

Is there a way to store this data? I was looking at Blynk as well and that looked interesting!

Thanks!

For the Wi-Fi side of things If you want to use something pretty straight forward I would recommend ThingSpeak (https://thingspeak.com/ ), I've used it in the past with multiple platforms, from Raspberry to standalone ESP8266-07 and it has worked great for me, there are a lot of tutorials you can find online, you can check in one of my blogs ( S.H.E.L.F. V2 ) if you want to see how I did it with the ESP module, here is how the stored data looks online:

If I'm correct, you can also download that data and do with it what you want, but it's limited to something like last 8000 entries, there is also an app for Android on the Google Play store which can show you the data on your phone. There is one alternative I also know of, but haven't used yet, so I really can't say how good it is, and that is http://dweet.io/  . You've also mentioned Blynk which can certainly easily be used for this with your board, they have amazing documentation on their website, and it's really easy to get started, if all you're looking at is to show the data on an app.

Milos

For the Wi-Fi side of things If you want to use something pretty straight forward I would recommend ThingSpeak (https://thingspeak.com/ ), I've used it in the past with multiple platforms, from Raspberry to standalone ESP8266-07 and it has worked great for me, there are a lot of tutorials you can find online, you can check in one of my blogs ( S.H.E.L.F. V2 ) if you want to see how I did it with the ESP module, here is how the stored data looks online:

If I'm correct, you can also download that data and do with it what you want, but it's limited to something like last 8000 entries, there is also an app for Android on the Google Play store which can show you the data on your phone. There is one alternative I also know of, but haven't used yet, so I really can't say how good it is, and that is http://dweet.io/  . You've also mentioned Blynk which can certainly easily be used for this with your board, they have amazing documentation on their website, and it's really easy to get started, if all you're looking at is to show the data on an app.

Milos