After a few month of owning the Arduino prototyping hardware, i have finally come up with an idea that is beneficial and freaking awesome.
Long term goal is to build something like a Home automation system but more like a Home Information System "HIS"? - Anyway, what it is going to be is a 3.2" Touch panel with a 4D-System with dedicated Graphics engine- that renders graphics using simple string sent via TTL! So that is my user inteface sorted. Behind the scenes I am going to synchronise my time to Cumbria's MSF Atomic clock using one of these and syncronise it to a sime RTC module that will keep time like in any watch or computer.. but i will never have to set it. Using a 433mhz tranciever I am going to try and control several wireless plugs for outside lighting, get a feed from an outside thermoeter and humidity sensor.
This whole project actaully started when i wanted to change my central heating's old fashioned heat control knob. So , yea- the main function of this is temperature control.
So today i got my Atmoic Clock receiver and I am going to go and test it on the Arduino and hopefully publish some code for Decoding Cumbria's 60Khz MSF atomic clock broadcast signal.
Long term goal is to build something like a Home automation system but more like a Home Information System "HIS"? - Anyway, what it is going to be is a 3.2" Touch panel with a 4D-System with dedicated Graphics engine- that renders graphics using simple string sent via TTL! So that is my user inteface sorted. Behind the scenes I am going to synchronise my time to Cumbria's MSF Atomic clock using one of these and syncronise it to a sime RTC module that will keep time like in any watch or computer.. but i will never have to set it. Using a 433mhz tranciever I am going to try and control several wireless plugs for outside lighting, get a feed from an outside thermoeter and humidity sensor.
This whole project actaully started when i wanted to change my central heating's old fashioned heat control knob. So , yea- the main function of this is temperature control.
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