New wristband connected to your bank account gives electric shocks if you go overdrawn. It's internet of things put to some practical use. They also suggest cutting your heating off if your account goes below a certain level. I thought of similar things, turning off the lights or the tumble dryer if our energy usage gets too high, but this is taking it to the next level.
With our step geek addiction the next logical step for us is a big hamster wheel we can walk in that would generate electricity, I'd love that if we had the room.
Noticed yesterday my energy monitor has gone offline. It runs on batteries, so I hope they just need replacing. There has not been another firmware update from lightwaverf, so it's not that.
Expecting a new raspberry pi to arrive today, plus a new camera module. Got an idea to take this one mobile, I need some new bits, one of these1 and a battery. Unfortunately needs a little soldering, hope it's not too hard. Then I can connect the battery to the pi and the other end to a power source when convenient, this means the power will charge the battery while the battery runs the pi. Similar to my aborted shed computer idea. Think I just didn't have the right bits nor enough power there... Will try this again, with the pi either
or maybe all three...
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
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