This post shows how to make a Raspberry Pi Carbon Dioxide Monitor using a raspberry pi connected to a USB carbon dioxide monitor. The project is deliberately bare bones and leaves several opportunities for refinement, improvement and general tinkering. What we are aiming to make The following schematic shows what we will be building up… Read More »
JSON is a common format for sending data to and from a RESTful API. In this post we’ll see how we can allow a simple Flask API to receive a JSON input. This post extends my previous post which made a simple Flask RESTful API and uses the Flask ‘get_json()’ method to accept JSON input.… Read More »
Heroku is a ‘platform as a service’ (PaaS) cloud provider. Heroku makes it easy to deploy apps by pushing to git repositories or using docker containers. This post shows you how you can deploy docker to Heroku. The Heroku website already has some good guides to help you deploy docker to Heroku, but I found… Read More »
Flask is a lightweight python web framework which can used for creating RESTful APIs. This post shows you how to make a simple Docker Flask SQLite API. This post builds on the excellent Flask API Lesson on The Programming Historian. If you just want to dive straight into a Docker Flask SQLite API example you… Read More »