After describing how to hook up your CurrentCost meter to your PC, it’s now time to see what else we can hook it up to. An obvious candidate is the Arduino microcontroller. For this project I’m using an Arduino Diecimila, which can be obtained quite cheaply from tinker.it in the UK.
Despite building our […]
Filed under: Projects, Electronics on June 16th, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Note: since this article was written, CurrentCost have started selling data cables via their eBay store.
The current craze at IBM Hursley involves the CurrentCost meter, a simple little gadget that measures power usage in your house. These are being discussed on IBM blogs everywhere, because while the device itself is very neat, it also […]
Filed under: Projects, IBM, Electronics on June 15th, 2008 | 16 Comments »
When the Wii first came out, I had a poke around online to see if anyone had done anything cool with the remote control that it came with - having seen it in action on the Wii, I figured there could be some interesting applications if it could be hooked up to a PC. […]
Filed under: Projects on April 13th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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