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Tag Archives: Electronics
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
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
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
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
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
Netduino and Analog Input: Look Ma, No Breadboard!
If you carefully compare the photos in my first and second posts about the Netduino, you may have noticed a couple of things: Before – After – There is no longer a mass of wires on the breadboard connecting the … Continue reading
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
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
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
Dollar Store Dissection: LED Color Matrix Mini Fan
And now for something completely different – a Dollar Store Dissection. To electronics hobbyists, dollars stores aren’t just a source of cheap gadgets that break easily — they are also a source of fresh cadavers for dissection. In addition to … Continue reading