I thought it would be interesting to analyze our hot water usage, at this stage this is just for fun, but maybe in the future to make more it energy efficient. During the winter, I use my heat pump to…
2boots bootloader on the uIoT: Serial + MMC bootloader in 2Kb
The 2boots bootloader is a lovely bootloader, developed by Thomas Seiler that is Just 2kb of flash, fits into normal 2kb bootblock of most atmega chips Serial (stk500v1) bootloader, compatible with avrdude and Arduino IDE Additional MMC bootloader, can read…
Raspberry Pi as IP webcam
I noticed this Instructable the other day and had to try it since I had an old USB web cam laying around. I found that the instructions contained some inaccuracies, here are my steps: sudo apt-get install motion sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf Locate…
Plotting my daily travel habbits
Now that I log my location and distance from home, I can visualize this data; Below is a 5-day log on my daily trips – I live around 20km away from the city: I am still not using this data in home…
emonGLCD
Glyn from OpenEnergyMonitor surprised me pleasantly the other day by sending me an emonGLCD unit to evaluate – thanks! Building it was easy, and an hour later I had it working. Quite nice piece of hardware, a must-have for home monitoring…
Optiboot on the micro IoT gateway
The uIoT gateway shield has FTDI plug that I used mostly for serial debugging, while for programming I used a clone of the USBTiny programmer. I wanted to adapt optiboot for the uIoT gateway, as that will make it easier for…