This past week, Anthony (the other member of the smart house team at solar) and I worked 8am to midnight (or later) everyday to get a lot of shit done. Needless to say, come Thursday, our brains were fried, and his room (which was our “lab”) was filled with wires, spare chips, breadboards … etc. What were we doing? We were trying to get most of the smart house system into hardware instead of relying on a PC. By yesterday, we got 3 micro-controllers talking over a data bus with each other and some of the devices in the house. This week, we get to work on getting the controllers talking to more devices by ourselves. I get to make temperature/humidity/light sensors talk to the controller. This way, we can monitor conditions around the house and decide on what to do (like turning an A/C on and off). Rambling aside… pictures!

Both of us decided to take the weekend off and work on other things. Hopefully, I will get something else done around the house and such.

Random side note. Was copying stuff to an external HDD for backup. It about 100 gigs of old files and such. This is what Vista thinks it will take to copy over all the data. You will see that about half of it has already been copied over (it took about 1 hour to get to this screen):

Well… time to do something other than solar for a few days. Maybe work on my website… (heh, right.)