First bits arrived
Freeduino and nuelectronics ethernet shield arrived a couple of days ago, so spent the first evening setting up my machine with Ardiouno 0017 (the development environment/serial monitor) and then started playing with the examples. Appears to be reasonably simple to do relatively cool things. Got the LED blinking, a simple webpage being hosted, reflectivity sensor working and ran out of things to do – need more hardware!
Initial plan is to monitor gas usage as I’m currently using currentcost to monitor electricity, so would be nice to get the full picture.
Ordered a BlinkM to start work on an ambient light that will be used to show power consumption, number of emails, traffic, weather – anything really!