Benjamin Ellis

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CurrentCost Graphs – Monitoring Home Power

It might not look like it, but that is a wondrous thing. It represents the next step in home hacking with the current cost meter. It is a lead which connects the current cost meter to the serial port on a lower power PC that runs a simple Perl script that records our power usage. The PC runs a [...]

Posted 3 years ago at 11:31 am. 1 comment

Home Hacking

No, not breaking into them! Automating them and reducing the power that they use…

Posted 3 years, 2 months ago at 9:53 am. 3 comments