Five sensors to measure the world, inspired by NASA and Yves Saint Laurent

[Anthony Perritano]

This is interesting, recently release environment sensors that plug into iOS devices such as temp, humidity, radiation, etc.. I know some educoders are interested in probeware. They are beautifully design including the App, but look a bit consumerism - not sure how well they would play in the classroom/lab like the vernier devices . But you can get the data out.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/11/3726638/lapka-iphone-sensors-yves-saint-laurent-meets-nasa

Also looks really promising - Twine "Listen to your world, let it talk to the internet". Which came out of the MIT media lab.  Wifi based sensors(temp, motion, etc..) without programming. Rule based. They passed the kickstarter stage and are in production. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckb6MaQI4GE

I have noticed a bunch of these types of connected interfaces popping up lately.  Before a lot of this stuff was handled by arduino. Which involves electronics knowledge and programming. Its nice to see these abstractions.

-Tony

[R Benjamin Shapiro]

We have a Twine here at Tufts. People like it, but wish they'd open up the web service that it talks to so it could talk to our own servers.

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[Anthony Perritano]

Sweet. How have you used it? Anything cool?

-Tony

[mike tissenbaum]

Nice design of those Russian sensors - but there are a couple of things I'd rather have than those - if we're checking radiation we have bigger worries :)

I know it takes a bit more programming than the twine but I really like the Gert board http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1734

Seems like you can do a lot more with it

[R Benjamin Shapiro]

Nothing cool yet. I spent some time last week hacking with a rascal board. It's like a Pi but has arduino headers. And you can code right in the browser. 

On Thursday, December 27, 2012, Anthony Perritano wrote:

Sweet. How have you used it? Anything cool?

-Tony

On Dec 27, 2012, at 2:07 PM, R Benjamin Shapiro <r...@benshapi.ro> wrote:

We have a Twine here at Tufts. People like it, but wish they'd open up the web service that it talks to so it could talk to our own servers.

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Anthony Perritano <aperr...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is interesting, recently release environment sensors that plug into iOS devices such as temp, humidity, radiation, etc.. I know some educoders are interested in probeware. They are beautifully design including the App, but look a bit consumerism - not sure how well they would play in the classroom/lab like the vernier devices . But you can get the data out.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/11/3726638/lapka-iphone-sensors-yves-saint-laurent-meets-nasa

Also looks really promising - Twine "Listen to your world, let it talk to the internet". Which came out of the MIT media lab.  Wifi based sensors(temp, motion, etc..) without programming. Rule based. They passed the kickstarter stage and are in production. 

Twine Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter.mp4

I have noticed a bunch of these types of connected interfaces popping up lately.  Before a lot of this stuff was handled by arduino. Which involves electronics knowledge and programming. Its nice to see these abstractions.

-Tony

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[Anthony Perritano]

wow its the first time i have seen the rascal board. Looks pretty rad.  More memory, faster cpu than arduino. A quick search, the rascal is compatible with arduino components out of the box and with pi you need a special bridge and library. Looks like Pi leans towards more mini computer, rascal more towards interfaceable and programmable, no? 

-Tony

[Matt Zukowski]

Having just finished building a custom thermostat in my house to control the VAC, I'd love to see more stuff like this, but moreover I'd love to see some simple standard for communication between nodes (probes, hubs, etc.). Right now I'm using Series 1 XBees, which just gives you just basic serial comms. I had to do a fair bit of work on top of that before I could start bussing useful data between the probes and the Pi-based hub... would be sweet if there was a higher-level protocol for doing that — something like a light-weight S3. I think the catch is that it would have to be light-weight enough to run on low-cost, low-power hardware like Arduino (so a full TCP/IP stack is probably too heavy), but powerful enough that it would take care of addressing/meshing and dealing with more complex datatypes (a la JSON).

[R Benjamin Shapiro]

Tony, I think that's a good way to think about it. It is super easy to
get up to speed with, especially since all the IO stuff can be done
via Python that you can edit in the browser.

Ben