Announcing Hot Or Not
My latest project, Hot Or Not, is live! It combines Arduino, NodeJS, Coffeescript, and Google Calendar, to make a thermostat which is remotely controllable via the internet. You can check out graphs of...
View ArticleBeyond NoSQL: Using RRD to store temporal data
Recently, I’ve worked on two projects (Power Hungry, Hot or Not) which (among other things) collect write-once data over time, and graph the results. The projects collect very different data, but this...
View ArticleFork & Extend vs. Build Your Own, a NodeJS Example
For Hot or Not, I wanted to leverage as much existing code (open-source libraries) as possible, so I could focus on the more interesting application logic. I found a library to work with the database...
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Building A Thermostat Using Arduino
I’ve completed the first pass of what seems to be a popular electronics self-education project: a home thermostat. I’ve already written about some of the software, and now I’d like to share some of the...
View ArticleHot Or Not: Back Up, Kind Of
A while back I built my own thermostat using an Arduino, nodejs, and Google Calendar. It worked really well, but when I moved to a new apartment last year I couldn’t use it (because I now have window...
View ArticleTimewise
I have two similar data collection projects, both of which collect time-series data and serve it up with graphs and such. The first one I did uses postgres, and manually (in code, not postgres) manages...
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