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- this is our growing house energy monitoring system online.

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- this is our growing house energy monitoring system twittering.

The entries below this one are the sum of the most recent entries in all the blogs and other services on this site.
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You have to love these guys - I have a powergorilla - with the extra solargorilla for a sunny day (!) - and i can't fault it. It keeps me watching movies for hours on a plane while powering my laptop, while recharging my iPhone.

So their next product is:

startmonkey
Dead car battery? We've got the power...

Introducing the startmonkey - the world's smallest "jump start" system for car batteries.

In 2009, the RAC were called out a whopping 177,916 times to jumpstart cars! A flat battery was the number 1 reason they were called out for breakdown assistance during last year.
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The mind boggles over the use of the Litter Kwitter - the cat toilet training system :

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From the release notes :

Arduino Software Release Notes

0018 - 2010.01.29

[core / libraries]

* Added tone() and noTone() functions for frequency generation.
* Added Serial.end() command.
* Added precision parameter for printing of floats / doubles.
* Incorporated latest version of Firmata.
* Fixed bug w/ disabling use of the RW pin in the LiquidCrystal library.
* No longer disabling interrupts in delayMicroseconds().
* Fixed bug w/ micros() returning incorrect values from within an interrupt.
* Fixed bug that broke use of analog inputs 8-15 on the Mega.

[environment]
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Out of sheer curiosity I decided to measure the temperature and humidity levels in the air being expelled from our tumbledryer.

So this little one was born :

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I's a Jeeduino mounted on top of a batterypack (with 3 * AA batteries) and a SHT11 sensor on a set of wires to allow me to insert it into the exhaust tube. In the end I decided to put the whole assembly inside the tube, where it wirelessly sends its measurements into the rest of the house automation system

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