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Qt Core: Hi Yaku
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Yakuzza Lethecus: good evening qt
Qt Core: :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: how are you doing ?
Qt Core: quite good, a strangely non stressing day at home, you ?
Yakuzza Lethecus: very well, just on a little vacation right now over the holydays
Yakuzza Lethecus: did you ever toy with an arduino ?
Qt Core: no, not personally, i'm only a software guy
Qt Core: a colleague do, but i think he is making something simple way more complicated.... but how many hobbies end ups like that ?
Yakuzza Lethecus: even tho it´s pretty physical the main work is the softwareside as it seems, i have one main use for my first arduino with ethernetboard but i had to use precompiled sketches since it wouldn´t compile for me
Qt Core: the idea is nice, standardized parts glued together with a few lines of code
Yakuzza Lethecus: i just use my to switch home appliances
Yakuzza Lethecus: well i think of it still as a toy but the quality of playing is hopefully higher then playing call of duty and such :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: actually boxy ones made me more curious about the arduino
Qt Core: (thinking about an arduino based tricorder ) ;-)
Yakuzza Lethecus: did someone yet get the money to build one ?
Yakuzza Lethecus: i recall there was a large price for it
Qt Core: every couple years i heard about some firm making something that would be the tricorder grandfather
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Yakuzza Lethecus: http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/
Yakuzza Lethecus: well, maybe 3d printers will also be grandfathers of replicators some daz
Qt Core: something cheaper: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...artphoneand-be
Yakuzza Lethecus: earl grey and synthohol might still take a while :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: that does not really sound new, sounds like an arduino with sensorshild mounted on a drone
Qt Core: it seems smaller than the usual arduino boards i've seen
Yakuzza Lethecus: right
Yakuzza Lethecus: i can´t solder or really code, maybe i will a bit through playing
Yakuzza Lethecus: do you have astronomie projects you code for for fun ?
Qt Core: no, in the end i'm too lazy, i have thought several time about things to code as an hobby but never done anything
Qt Core: last thing i started and ended is some 20 years old
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Yakuzza Lethecus: i still don´t have real experience with sensors on the arduino, but could be interesting to measure air quality
Yakuzza Lethecus: atm i only have a dht22 for temp and humidity at home
Qt Core: for what i've seen just plug it and receive numbers
Qt Core: and then send them to some output like a little screen
Yakuzza Lethecus: my first arduino uno is occupied with switching lights and other electrical items
Yakuzza Lethecus: it runs a little webserver and so i can switch from anywhere
Yakuzza Lethecus: more toy then useful and as mentioned i used sketches that already were there
Yakuzza Lethecus: so no skill needed which i also don´t possess atm
Qt Core: one could control windows to let the plants at home get the sun when away :-)
Qt Core: my colleagues is using it to get the data from his radio-controlled plane
Yakuzza Lethecus: actually urban gardening sounds fun
Yakuzza Lethecus: well or considering electricityprices one of those arm based minipc´s as server and the arduino´s with ethernet provide the gpio´s
Qt Core: maybe i can do that, plants die just on my sight, maybe some robot will be more welcomed
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Yakuzza Lethecus: i don´t have plants either, but i wouldn´t say that i will always avoid them, maybe maybe not no dogmatic opinion
Qt Core: coming home in the summer with the ac already running may be good (and not having wasted energy if you are late and you used a simple timer)
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, at the moment i just have a few lightswitches and electronic devices connected, only 6 switches
Qt Core: and the prank possibilities too <evil grin="">
Yakuzza Lethecus: but it´s to consider that each swtich consumes 0,7-1w and the arduino 3-4w as well
Yakuzza Lethecus: i will go to bed
Qt Core: maybe another simpler arduino with only one switch to start the more complex one ? metaswitches!
Qt Core: ok, sleep well
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, i do have some cascaded
Yakuzza Lethecus: like for my satellite reciever
Yakuzza Lethecus: sleep well</evil>
