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Bees and people

Monday, February 23 2015 @ 22:58 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Open Source Beehives is interesting, as well as Flow Hive Honey (IndieGogo).

Home Assistant

Monday, February 02 2015 @ 21:12 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform, running on Python 3.

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Coherent has been open sourced

Tuesday, January 13 2015 @ 22:02 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Coherent, along with other source code from Mark Williams Company has been released under an open source license. MWC Sources.

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IOduino

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 15:01 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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IOduino is a firmware for the Arduino which enables it's pins to be controlled remotely (over serial RS232). Analog/digital reads and writes are all possible. It comes bundled with a C++ library (IOduino.h) and a Python library (ioduino.py) which allows easy control from a computer running Linux. Interesting.

Arduino - optiboot

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 13:10 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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If you work with Arduino, optiboot might be of interest. It is compatible with 168 and 328 Arduinos including Lilypad, Pro, Nano. OptiLoader looks like a nice way to put optiboot on a bunch of Arduino's quickly. Or Nick Gammon's Atmega bootloader programmer,

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Firmata and microcontroller communication

Sunday, December 28 2014 @ 12:52 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Firmata (wiki - unmaintained) is a protocol for communicating with microcontrollers from software on a computer (or smartphone/tablet, etc). The protocol can be implemented in firmware on any microcontroller architecture as well as software on any computer software package (see list of client libraries below). Implementations for Arduino and Spark exists.

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Home automation - MySensors

Monday, December 15 2014 @ 21:43 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 4,209

From the MySensors web site: "We've combined the Arduino platform with a small radio transceiver into a fun, flexible world of low cost wireless sensors.". That sounds really cool for home automation.

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Node-RED

Thursday, December 11 2014 @ 22:55 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 706

Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.

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about collectd

Sunday, November 23 2014 @ 18:18 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.

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Internet Arcade

Monday, November 10 2014 @ 09:48 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 575

Internet Arcade from Internet Archive (of Wayback Machine fame) lets you play a lot of classic Arcade games in your browser. Currently there are over 1000 games there.