Kevin the MQTT Owl

Kevin started his life when my then flatmate found him in a bargain bin for 25p. Once the inbuilt button cell battery had depleted she let me have a play with it.

I removed the battery holder, rewired the eye LEDs, built a circuit board consisting of an ESP8266 and a DFPlayer Mini MP3 Player and hot-glued a speaker where the battery holder used to be.

Initially I simply hooked him up to our doorbell, whose 433MHz signal gets converted into MQTT messages through Sonoff’s RFBridge running the excellent Espurna firmware:

Kevin the sorting owl is able to speak, has MQTT connectivity, and knows how to randomly choose people for assigning them to teams
https://github.com/axwax/kevin-the-mqtt-owl
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Recent commits:

• rename to Kevin the MQTT owl, Axel Minet
• Update README.md, GitHub
• Update README.md, GitHub
• a little bit of tidying and commenting, Axel Minet
• initial commit, Axel Minet