Category Archives: Programming

Netduino: A Little Help From Its Friends

Note: This article is an installment in a series about building a plant light controller (and beyond) on the Netduino microcontroller platform.  For previous articles in the series, click here. If you’ve made the switch to programming with .Net Micro … Continue reading

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Tweet-A-Watt: Beyond the Twitter, Part Deux

This article continues my earlier post about web-based services for monitoring your electricity usage using Tweet-A-Watt. Last time I focused on Pachube – today I’ll explain the process of connecting a Tweet-A-Watt to Nimbits. Nimbits Overview Nimbits has a lot … Continue reading

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Tweet-A-Watt: Beyond the Twitter

As I’ve written before, I really like the idea behind Adafruit’s Tweet-A-Watt project, which uses a modified Kill-A-Watt box and an Xbee transmitter to create an inexpensive home energy monitor. I’ve been running one 24/7 for over a year, and … Continue reading

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Netduino: Ordering Off the Menu

The source code for this article can be downloaded here: LightControllerWithMenu.zip. This is the 5th in a series of projects for the Netduino and Seeed Studio’s Grove Starter Bundle. The first four articles in the series were: Netduino Enters the … Continue reading

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Netduino: Here Comes The Night

This is the 4th in a series of projects for the Netduino and Seeed Studio’s Grove Starter Bundle. The first three articles in the series were: Netduino Enters the Grove Netduino: Time and Weather Netduino: Let There Be Light As … Continue reading

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Netduino: Let There Be Light

This is the 3rd in a series of projects for the Netduino and Seeed Studio’s Grove Starter Bundle. This installment is intended to create a plant light that automatically switches on and off at a pre-set time of the day … Continue reading

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Netduino: Time and Weather

Note: The source code for the project described in this post can be downloaded here. This post is a continuation of my “Netduino Enters the Grove” article.   Building on the project in that post, I’m going to make the … Continue reading

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Netduino Enters the Grove

Note: The source code for the temperature LCD program described in this article can be downloaded here. I recently received one of Seeed Studio’s new Grove Starter Bundles. Since many others will put GROVE through its paces using an Arduino … Continue reading

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Surviving the Twitter OAuthcalypse with Tweet-A-Watt

When Twitter recently made the OAuth API mandatory for 3rd party applications, the resulting OAuthcalypse silenced the tweets of a lot of code. Among those affected was Adafruit‘s innovative Tweet-A-Watt system, which interfaces with a low cost Kill-A-Watt monitor to … Continue reading

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Book Review: SQL Cookbook by Anthony Molinaro

Like many developers, I’ve bounced between various relational databases on my coding projects, primarly DB2, SQL Server and Oracle.  If someone asked me if the SQL I write is compatible with all three, I’d sheepishly admit that most of it … Continue reading

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