When you want to connect an IoT device to the Internet (or, for that matter, connect anything to anything), you should take a serious look at Node-RED, a free, open source visual process wiring ...

Sure we could adapt one of the 3.3V to 5V converters out there but that sounded like a lot of work. What we really wanted was a way to allow our 5V parts to connect to the Raspberry Pi without a ...