ThingSpeak: an open source "Internet of Things" API

[Suan]

Also see: http://www.violet.net/_mirror-give-powers-to-your-objects.ht... (Violet also frequently uses "The Internet of Things" when marketing their products). I wrote a hacker-friendly app for the mir:ror at http://mirlite.heroku.com

[nothans]

Looks cool, maybe we need to make an open source adapter for all of these platforms?

[harrisonhjones]

I just found pachube today and I think I like your implementation better. I've been looking for a standard for sensor api interfacing. Just a tip, I scrolled down by accident and noticed you had a news area. Might want to make that more obvious. The way you page looks now it looks like it "ends" before your news

[rubypay]

Thanks for the comments, we moved the news section up a bit more. Glad you like our implementation, if you have any feature requests let us know.

[nickpinkston]

Also worth a mention is http://droneos.com With all the craziness coming out of robotics now - and http://DIYDrones.com lowering the barriers of the hardware - this could have some neat applications.

[nothans]

Wow - just think of a net connected drone - maybe a drone with Google Maps on board or pushing air quality stats to a database. That would be an interesting mash up. Also, it's nice to see a HackPGH'er on here.

[nothans]

We built the API to be more like Twitter's API - so geolocation and status updates are built right in and gives raw sensor data more context. My house is completely connected and my things send me status updates. Dig in to the open source API and you can see the differences.

[seanalltogether]

Ok so it took me a couple minutes to understand what this is. Do you have examples of how this is used, what kind of hardware provides networked sensor data? Is there a compatibility list somewhere?

[ladyada]

see also: pachube.com

[lancefisher]

pachube.com is cool, but this is open source.