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Thanks Rick for organising and Gordon for putting on the show:
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjzitm9C
Good to meet new people and catch up with folks like Simon!
As I mentioned last night, if I could purchase a RasberryPI, assign
its mac address to something like pi.lan on my DHCPD
Then ideally it would just be powered on as a Web server I could query like so
$.getJSON("http://pi.lan/temp?jsoncallback=?";,
function(data) {
$('h1#temperature').html(data.celcius);
});
I would be impressed.
So the problems in my mind is providing
1) simple reliable OS
2) Simple Webserver - http://hg.suckless.org/quark/ or
http://www.nazgul.ch/dev_nostromo.html
3) Some CGI to handle the JSON requests - i would personally write
this in shell. https://github.com/keenerd/jshon/ might help
4) Some decent API design - this is surprisingly non-trivial,
especially if we want to make this fast, then we need to use sockets
and probably golang to provide it?
I guess what I'm aiming for is something like Twine:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-listen-to-your-world-talk-to-the-internet
The projects around http://prazefarm.co.uk/ I have mind in mind that
the rasberryPI might be useful for:
* logging temperature around the house that are within wireless range
* door access control powered by a USB RFID reader, would need to get
those doors magnets from somewhere
* security camera - this might be a bit too hard to do well compared
to http://www.y-cam.com/
* attached to a laser beam to count folks breaking the beam (motion
detector type use case)
After living in Singapore, I am still desperately keen to improve
insulation at the house and I was keen on the infrared thermometer.
More keen on a thermal imaging camera. Anyone have one I could borrow?
Kind regards,
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