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New home monitoring setup - part 1

Updated 26/2/2010
I have been looking at revisiting my home monitoring setup for some time. Whilst I have considered plug computers and other slugs as the hub for this I keep coming back to the Arduino. An Arduino has enough CPU power, is cheap, very low power and I can maintain it should it develop a [...]

February 23rd, 2010 | Category: Arduino, Home monitoring, Wireless, XBee | 6 comments

Calke Abbey

A week ago we went for a walk round Calke Abbey grounds. Calke Abbey is National Trust and about 10 miles south of Derby.
As is usual I took a few (well a lot) of photos.

I can see a face in this gnarled old Oak trunk.

February 22nd, 2010 | Category: Photo a day | Leave a comment

Cannot post reliably - keep getting errors

I am having great difficulty in posting anything that is not straight text – I suspect a Wordpress bug (recently upgraded to 2.9) but I cannot narrow it down. It appears to be when I have links to external sites. Wonder if Wordpress introduced a new security feature?
Got it – any post created with the [...]

February 21st, 2010 | Category: comment | Leave a comment

FIO (Arduino and XBEE) door, doorbell and others monitor

I have been extending my range of inputs to the CurrentCost, Ardunio, Xport pachube logger.
In order to do this I wanted a wireless sensor module.
After looking round I chose the FIO, has an XBEE socket and ATMega168, very little else. Can be powered from a rechargeable LiPo battery.
The next step was to look at the [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Arduino, Home monitoring | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)