Desert Home

I live in the Arizona Desert, Southwestern USA. It gets hot here, and my power bills got out of hand. This is a journal of my various efforts to bring this problem under control using the cheapest technology I could find. Saving money shouldn't cost a fortune.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Updated the Xbee page

I put a picture and description of the XBee thermometer I made on the "World of Xbee" page (tab above). This was the first "...

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Expanding the System even more

The lessons I've learned about XBees and ethernet on an Arduino started coming together. My latest project is expanding the monitoring ...

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Latest Arduino Ethernet Board.

Got a brand new ethernet board and mega2560 to build a whole house controller and web interface. The mega is a great board and the ethernet...

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Using XBee Broadcast

OK, I have no life; I admit it. I modified the sketch for the power monitor to transmit the power reading over my (brand new) XBee network...

Monday, March 21, 2011

Still messing with XBees, probably will be for a long time

I just published my findings on XBee implementation. It's really not the fault of the designers of these little devices that they seem ...

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

First XBee running

Spent most of the day rebuilding the power monitor in the garage and interfacing it to an XBee. I had forgotten how I built the monitor so ...

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Time to rebuild some stuff

I've been experimenting with XBees and they seem to work if you try hard enough and follow enough conflicting instructions from various ...

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