It's been off for quite a while but @ourduino is now back in action. It's intercepting the remote control signals in the house and telling the world about them. I lost all this code when my AWS instance got corrupted and I had to launch a new one, losing some uncommitted changes in the process. When I relaunched I didn't realise the twitter gem I was using had changed radically, stopping stuff working. Well now it's back, enjoy!
robot butler turned kitchen radio on (1f)
— My [Arduino](/wiki/#arduino) (@ourduino) October 12, 20141This needs two things in place if you're interested, one is rf-butler2 set up on an arduino with some other hardware, mostly a rf receiver to pick up on the radio signals from the remote controls. Then the other is a proxy script to pick up the http requests that that sends and post them on to the twitter. At one stage I had it going direct, with no proxy script, but since twitter went all ssl the arduino doesn't have the memory to do it. I'll post details of that script later. It's written in ruby right now, for no good reason, I will rewrite it in python for trendy larks. It runs on this aws instance actually but it could be running on one of the raspberry pis just as easily.
Or is it rasberries pi?
arduino: Microcontroller, hardware prototyping platform, a tiny specialised computer.
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed to Clare + dad to 2, I am a full-stack web developr, and I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubs, running, eating, home automation + other diy stuff, history, family tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.