I had recently embarked on a small project inspired by ex-colleagues. One of the largest obstacles for a hobbyist is the cost of starting an IOT project.

The project was reignited after encouraging from a friend. I am amazed after learning from him that I can get an arduino with wifi and BLE; ESP32-wrover-ie . The primary appeal is the module cost MYR32 (at the time of the blog post). Its price will be able to allow hobbyist like me to create IoT that will act as a DAQ (Data AQuisition) device, that I can use the data to try out weather forecast modelling using BiLTSM; that will be another story hopefully in near future.

The customed model kit bundle are as following: