Blog2013 ≫ Air freshener hack!

There's just so much interesting stuff out there at the moment that I'm having trouble staying focussed... Just found this airwick hack 1 making a "room node 2" out of an air freshener that you can find really cheaply... Found that from this article 3 which I followed from this article 4 about an arduino 5 library that guy had written to talk to the lightwaverf hardware... I just started on my own arduino 5 code that I was quite pleased with that just talks to the wifi link, the seventy quid hub that you have to buy and then connect to your router - but this code is way ahead of that, using a three pound transmitter 6 he's sending RF signals direct to the switches and sockets. And all of this is free and open. There are so many things to try. Going to get me a transmitter 6 and a receiver 7 from coolcomponents.co.uk 8 and give it a go.

I've got a queue of components waiting to be used, how will I find the time to learn the guitar that I possibly just bought too..?

I still need to fix the landing lights. This explains everything...

  1. Removed old dbzoo.com/livebox/hah_hahnode/airwick link here.
  2. Javascript (programming language of the web) on the server side.
  3. Removed old geekgrandad.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/airwick-room-node/ link here.
  4. Removed old geekgrandad.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/lightwaverf-arduino-library/#comment-66 link here.
  5. Microcontroller, hardware prototyping platform, a tiny specialised computer.
  6. Removed old coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/link-transmitter-434mhz-p-810.html link here.
  7. Removed old coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/link-receiver-4800bps-434mhz-p-867.html link here.
  8. Removed old coolcomponents.co.uk link here.

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Paulʼs weblog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Married + father to two, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, running, restaurants, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, television, squirrels, pirates ☠️, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.