Tuesday 30 August 2011

Pachube Posts... Real life sensors

Must say, picking a post to work on from the Pachube website, was a bit hard for me. At first I was intrigued to find something about music - and went on to look at a sensor from a playground that plays a tune each time someone is sitting on one of the facilities inside. It was "frozen" of course, like many other posts I checked, searching for sound / movement etc. Then went on looking for cities. London ? NYC ? When I got to Berlin (dying to visit) found this little post: https://pachube.com/feeds/5897

1st in Berlin (Home Sweet Home)


collected information at my home place
outside temperature measured
on my balcony using an HMS100T temperature sensor
inside temperature measured using an FHT80b sensor
light is measured using a temperature sensor unit but having the NTC exchanged by a LDR
all sensors are kind of based on the FS20 system
FHEM software is collecting and posting the data using an busware.de CC1101-USB-Lite device on an ALIX3C.3 mainboard

So.. I have absolutely no idea what these initials mean - but I probably will by the end of this assignment - right ?
Cheers,
Adi.