{"id":49068,"date":"2017-12-27T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T13:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomnerdtutorials.com\/?p=49068"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:23:25","slug":"year-in-review-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomnerdtutorials.com\/year-in-review-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in Review 2017 – Random Nerd Tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we’re reaching the end of the year, we’ve decided to share the most important highlights on Random Nerd Tutorials throughout 2017.<\/p>\n

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Throughout this Year…<\/h2>\n

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…We’ve Reached 3.8 Million Views!<\/h2>\n

During 2017 we’ve published a total of 58 new projects\/tutorials, and received more than 3 million views on the Random Nerd Tutorials website. That’s a good thing, because that means we’re helping a lot of people learning about electronics and building their own projects.<\/p>\n

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More Than 116k Followers<\/h2>\n

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Our community is getting bigger. We’ve reached more than 116K followers!<\/p>\n

During this year, we’ve noticed that members on our private Facebook group are getting more active, sharing their knowledge, and their projects.<\/p>\n

When I first created the Facebook group, it was just members asking questions, and me answering them. Now I’m happy to see that there’s a great community of people helping each other and it’s growing every day.<\/p>\n

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2017 Most Popular Content<\/h2>\n

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Our most popular content in 2017 includes Arduino<\/a>, Raspberry Pi<\/a>, ESP8266<\/a>, and Node-RED<\/a> projects. All these subjects are mainly addressed to Home Automation.<\/p>\n

We’re getting a lot of requests on tutorials using ESP32, which we’ll be our main focus in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Throughout 2017, our most popular tutorial was undoubtedly ESP8266 Web Server Tutorial<\/a>. It’s great to see how people are getting more and more interested in building their own Internet of Things gadgets. If you haven’t read the most popular post in 2017, you can read it here:\u00a0ESP8266 Web Server Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Our most popular video in 2017, What is MQTT and How It Works?<\/a> explains in a simple way how MQTT works and why it is a great communication protocol when it comes to Internet of Things projects. You can watch the video below.<\/p>\n