Monitoring home energy consumption - Hack a Day
I'll collect a few here.
Learning \ Processing 1.0 (BETA)
Processing Workshop :: ACAD :: April 3-5 2008
Zigbee and OS X compatible HAN and AMI systems (acronyms meaning Home Area Network and Advanced Metering Infrastructure). Getting closer to an energy monitoring solution.
Tendril is a customer of Ember which makes the chips and embedded software.
Interview - Robert LeFort, CEO Ember - ZigBee for Energy Management
Okay, I admit it - I'm trying to teach myself what those lucky kids at ITP are learning. They get to collaborate, I bang my head on the wall by myself. But some of it is getting through. They'll get through this class taught by Rob Faludi in one semester, I'll be struggling for years. But I'll get the tech girls to help, and some day we'll have a sunny room on Ave. D just for this.
Collaborative Mesh Networking: Syllabus
From Tom Igoe at ITP.
And a video from someone who did it:
MAKE: Blog: Fun with Xbee and Arduino
Open wireless sensor/bluetooth/WiFi mesh network. Is this the way to go?
SparkFun Electronics - Arduino XBee
Libelium Comunicaciones Distribuidas - SquidBee
Looking to make the Arduino do something useful, and learn in the process.
Current Cost Home - Current Cost
Current Cost Power-o-meter - Current Cost
CurrentCost Arduino = Power-o-meter on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Effing the Ineffable » Interfacing the CurrentCost meter to your PC
cookin'/relaxin': How to hack a Current Cost energy monitor
The Boundingbox » Blog Archive » Arduino Temperature
Temperature Measurment using the Dallas DS18B20 (and Arduino)
Arduino playground - GetOneWireTemp
RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is a practical self-copying 3D printer - a self-replicating machine.
Work produced for the 120X12 foot screen at the IAC headquarters building, designed by Frank Gehry.
The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
technology enhanced learning: Main/Multitouch Page
Finally. Enough with the social networks and ad models...
O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy | The Social - CNET News
"(These are) pretty depressing times in a lot of ways," O'Reilly said in an address that first had looked like it would simply be a starry-eyed discussion of enterprise opportunities for Web 2.0. "And you have to conclude, if you look at the focus of a lot of what you call 'Web 2.0,' the relentless focus on advertising-based consumer models, lightweight applications, we may be living in somewhat of a bubble, and I'm not talking about an investment bubble. (It's) a reality bubble."
Published last March, but as we see the echoes of 1929 around us, the need for a New New Deal is obvious.
THE NATION - Bill McKibben - A Green Corps
Michael J. Copps:Not Your Father's FCC
Andrea Batista Schlesinger:A Chaos of Experimentation
Eric Schlosser:The Bare Minimum
Frances Moore Lappé:The Only Fitting Tribute
Adolph Reed Jr.:Race and the New Deal Coalition
The Rev. Jesse Jackson:For the 'FDR'
Andy Stern: Labor's New Deal
Anna Deavere Smith:Potent Publics
herle R. Schwenninger:Democratizing Capital
Stephen Duncombe: FDR's Democratic Propaganda
Howard Zinn:Beyond the New Deal
Slashdot | Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses
Slashdot | 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell
Watch the Nova presentation on E.O Wilson.
NOVA | Lord of the Ants | Watch the Program | PBS
Clearwaters Magazine, of the New York Water Environment Association.
Awake, obsessing about the East River Cam we want to install, I found this instead.
From NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Department, tutorials for all things Arduino.
Physical Computing at ITP | Tutorials
Well, our webmaster pal uses it on his job and likes it. We'll try out the demo site and see if it's for us.
Live demos of Zimbra's open source email and group calendar software
Prensa Libre - Edición electrónica - Nacional
En Piedras Negras, en la selva lacandona, hay seis frentes ilegales. En el denominado Macabilero los usurpadores juegan al gato y al ratón con las autoridades, ya que cuando la fuerza pública se presenta, ellos escapan, pero cuando se retira, los usurpadores regresan.
Last Thursday, the Guatemala president's office announced that they had found secret microphones and cameras in the president's offices and residence. The head of security was dismissed. Now, high ranking military officers are admitting that parts of the country are essentially under control of the narcotraffickers..
Guatemala, ¿Estado fallido? | Infolatam
They are calling it "Guategate":
Guategate al Presidente | Infolatam: Noticias y Análisis de América Latina
Someday we'll have a girls club shop (or a corner somewhere) for DIY projects.
The Little Bird Electronics Network
Alberto Bietti's projects blog: Arduino Theremin
Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
leah buechley - do it yourself - make your own wearable LED display
leah buechley - LilyPad Arduino - introduction
SparkFun Electronics - LilyPad Starter Kit
SparkFun Electronics - Tutorials
For Halloween:
todbot blog » Spooky Projects - Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino
Another approach, going into servo motors:
todbot blog » Bionic Arduino - Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino
Look! No Arduino!
leah buechley - do it yourself - make your own electronic sewing kit
Inhabitat » Groundbreaking Energy Ball Wind Turbine for Home Power
Technology Review: Microbes for Off-the-Grid Electricity
eBay makes eco-play with new green marketplace | News - Digital Media - CNET News
One car company facing the limits of growth.
Green Car Congress: Toyota Releases Sustainability Report 2008, Looks to Liquid Peak
Great weblog by one of the programmers of Comic Life...
UI and us - User Interaction Reviews, News and Musings
...who I ran across in this demo of a neat Wiimote/Quartz Composer hack...
PixelCorps.tv - Wiimote Adaptation
...which is a Mac version of one of Johnny Chung Lee's famous Wiimote tricks.
YouTube - Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Classic geeky hacks. But this Mac version only came out this summer, thanks in part to the good folks at kineme.net.
WiiMote Control Patch | Kineme
Still finding multitouch projects. We'll pick one to do at the Girls Club.
Instructables - Interactive Multitouch Display
YouTube - Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
Here's a posting of Mark Petersen's address from the July Fulldome summit. He plugs his website (subscription needed) but has several useful charts of information here showing numbers of domes, types of projectors, and available programming.
Loch Ness Productions: 2008 State Of The Dome Address
"...there are all these discussions about even hooking up Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela into a grid that of power plants and electrical lines that would go from northern South America up through Central America into Mexico.
That's way down the line, but you can't get there until you integrate Mexico and Central America. This is the first real step.
It's difficult because initially they were planning on building a huge dam in the Usumacinta river valley to generate the power that Mexico would sell to Central America. That dam got blocked because of environmental and ethnographic concerns so I'm not sure where the power that's going to come from Mexico to Guatemala will come from."