I hate to be "that guy" but if this is what passes for an interesting project these days, I could flood github with all the miscellaneous crap I have on my testbench.
Temperature is the most commonly measured process variable. Measuring it in most cases is trivial!
Show me an RPi project that calculates the temperature of a blast furnace by measuring the air pressure and the speed of sound in the vicinity and I'll change my mind.
Embedded guy here as well. I have to chuckle when I see a mountain of Java code to do a simple sensor operation but, hey, at least they're trying to understand how to make it all work.
What's distressing is that these folks will win in the end, and IoT wind up being quad-core devices @ 800Mhz because everyone is writing their system nodes in node.js or running a JVM. Small and tight just isn't worth the effort anymore.
"I could flood github with all the miscellaneous crap I have on my testbench."
I would say the vast majority of projects on Github qualify as 'miscellaneous crap'. Most employers these days require a link to your Github profile during the application process, which can be a pain if you have been working with closed-source systems your entire career, or are relatively new to the field (Github isn't part of most CS curriculums). Throwing up a few toy projects can be enough to get you through the screening process.
With that said, I personally wouldn't submit a project like this to HN (I have a very similar project on GH). But if it got enough up votes to get on the front page, who are we to judge.
I like this project :). I made a similar temperature alert system with Raspberry Pi called Fido. It supports the Temper1 USB sensor and the Temperature/Humidity Pro sensor for GrovePi board that attaches to the R-Pi.
Also, I got funded today by the Knight Foundation to work on the Open Pipe Kit which should be a more modular version of Fido. The goal is to make it dead simple for anyone to send data from sensor to anywhere on the Internet.
Tomorrow I might post our 3D printer operating system, which includes calibrated temperature readings and SMS alerts among many other things (webcam, motor control, and printing objects remotely)
HeyLaughingBoy|11 years ago
Temperature is the most commonly measured process variable. Measuring it in most cases is trivial!
Show me an RPi project that calculates the temperature of a blast furnace by measuring the air pressure and the speed of sound in the vicinity and I'll change my mind.
joezydeco|11 years ago
What's distressing is that these folks will win in the end, and IoT wind up being quad-core devices @ 800Mhz because everyone is writing their system nodes in node.js or running a JVM. Small and tight just isn't worth the effort anymore.
pyoung|11 years ago
I would say the vast majority of projects on Github qualify as 'miscellaneous crap'. Most employers these days require a link to your Github profile during the application process, which can be a pain if you have been working with closed-source systems your entire career, or are relatively new to the field (Github isn't part of most CS curriculums). Throwing up a few toy projects can be enough to get you through the screening process.
With that said, I personally wouldn't submit a project like this to HN (I have a very similar project on GH). But if it got enough up votes to get on the front page, who are we to judge.
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staticvar|11 years ago
See the page for farmers -> http://farmhack.net/tools/fido-temperature-alarm-sends-text-...
Code here -> https://github.com/fidoserver/Fido
staticvar|11 years ago
Blog post -> http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/2/10/k...
Project page -> http://farmhack.net/tools/open-pipe-kit
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