During the last decade, wireless communication technologies have become an essential part of the mechatronic products. This project aims to give you a hands-on experience in taking your Arduino projects to another level, where devices can talk to each other through a distributed computing network.

In this project, you will learn:

• How to realize wireless communications
• How to connect the ‘cloud’ and utilise its’ resources
• How to design for rapid prototyping with laser cutters
• How to develop a wifi connected product

For this project, you will use:

• esp8266 / nodemcu board
• stepper/servo motors
• Jumper cables
• acrylic
• A power supply
• A photo interrupter (GP1A51HRJ00F)

Your main task is to develop a IoT roll printer that can connect to bluemix / node red to receive information(e.g. weather) and print it out on a paper roll (‘bonrulle’), one character/ icon at a a time.