This is a guest post from fellow LED fan Rupert Rawnsley who has developed a great animation
Spidey Wall
The Spidey Wall is intended to evoke Spider-Man’s costume and contains almost 2000 individually addressable coloured LEDs
Sensing Mains with Mbed/Arduino
Using an off-ebay voltage alerter as a heating pump monitor on an MBED/Arduino.
Our home heating system sucks!
Partly it’s the up-to-temperature problem where centrally located thermostats register that all is well while some rooms are still cold – or vice versa and the boiler/furnace runs pointlessly.
Home Automation Server #2
I have now split up the various functions of my home automation server software and found a great replacement for the sonos API functionality that I’d previously developed.
Bluetooth Smart Target (Game)
Chris Greening (@mrbananas) has been working on an exciting project to bring web UIs to IoT devices – more about this later. He has been up to stay with us in Edinburgh for a few days and we’ve been working on a small demonstrator for his tech. We decided to build a BLE target suitable for a hacky sack throwing …