HomeCamp 2 went from Wiki to reality on Saturday the 25th – A room full of people from diverse backgrounds sharing ideas on how to automate homes, monitor and reduce energy consumption and do the occasionally whacky thing like using a string of ducks that light up to monitor a virtual worlds. Rather than trying to write up exhaustive notes,… Read more →
Category: homehacking
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 script that captures the information… Read more →
Home Hacking
No, not breaking into them! Automating them and reducing the power that they use… Read more →