It's like Pixar!  I wish it didn't make such a racket.  Could you imagine the bitching you'd hear if you woke up to take a piss in the middle of the night?  The whole house would be up because my dog would freak the fuck out and bark at it.

:-D

It is interesting, but all I see are the feds hacking in and watching your every move!

At least you'd know about it. I mean it'd certainly throw some light on the situation.

Would you? The light would just follow you around as normal, and the feds would just watch through whatever that funky interface is.

Well the two with USB and soldered pins /finally/ arrived today. Just need to think of some other things to do.

Chinese New Year slowing things down?

No idea because I ordered other things at the same time that arrived a couple of weeks ago. Also ordered things since that arrived last week.

Considering the nomination.....

:')

Oohh, nice. I like that. How easy is that to setup and how accurately does it work?

It's not too bad but there's often some funny interpretations.

So is that with a controlled switch or a relay?  Nice job!

Should have posted in this thread too -

Voice to Google search
AutoVoice detects key phrases and speaks to Tasker
Tasker does a HTTP Get command to my web server
Web server issues light on command to Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi issues light on command to Arduino
Arduino sends light on signal to LightwaveRF switch

So it's a controlled switch.

Tempted to get thishttp://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004X25LW8 Not sure if it's worth spending so much though, depends how much I'll use it I guess. Gonna need one for my mini quadcopter when the motors wear out. And when I build my full size one. And I definitely want to do some Arduino stuff.

Or this http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/60w-professional-lcd-solder-station-with-esd-protection-a55kj

half price.

Damn. Too late. I was going to order it now and it's back up to the old price.

Please tell me why I am now looking at >=£100 irons. Someone on another forum pointed some out to me. I really can't afford that and could put the extra money towards some other bits that I could actually solder.

Must resist. Although if I get a cheaper one and it breaks and I need to buy a new one it might end up being cheaper getting the more expensive one.

And SMD soldering looks surprisingly easy with a soldering iron. Maybe not the teeny weeny stuff buy pretty small bits.

And I just found a good use for the auto loading posts. I replied to your post then decided I wanted to check a post you'd made later on. I scrolled down, the posts loaded but I was still able to go forward and my message was still intact.

Well my 2nd attempt at soldering the Pro Mini came out much much better.

I was actually far too happy about it as each pin seemed to solder perfectly (ish) each time.

I think it's a combination of better solder and a better technique.



And here's my prototype wireless temperature sensor. Data is transmitted to an RPi over Bluetooth.

Waiting for some solar panels to arrive so I can put it outside and have the batteries recharge. They currently last about 48 hours. Also waiting for some alternative RF transceivers so I can increase the range since Bluetooth is a bit naff.

 

I think I'm going to buy an atmega chip and other bits to make my own so I can reduce the power consumption since I certainly don't need a power LED, don't need the regulators either since I'm using the 4xAA batteries as a regulated "5V". Currently uses around 40mA on average.