====== R yr lightz enuf awsom? ====== A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away little Chinese hands carefully soldered, prepared and packaged our really small order. And here they comes, our precioussssssssssss.... 2-channel relay modules! One sixth dozen of them (two.). {{:blog:r-yr-lightz-enuf-awsom:img_6246.jpg?nolink|}} ===== The Problem ===== In every single part of our Hackerspace, the switch is on the opposite side of the room. You had to wander in the darkness through The Stacks Of Useful Components lying around, fighting for life with inhabitants of our coffee mugs. Up to now. It's over. Finally, we did it. Half of our Hackerspace has now remote-controlled lights. ===== And The Magic Smoke Solution ===== We're using Arduino with Ethernet Shield, mentioned above relay modules, duct tape and a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke|Magic Smoke]]. The [[http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/TwitterClient|TwitterClient]] example was wonderful starting point for our project. Mostly because API 1.0 used in example is deprecated now, so we weren't able to easily use [[https://twitter.com/hackerspace_krk|Twitter API]]. Instead, we used [[http://getbootstrap.com/|Twitter Bootstrap]] :-) {{:blog:r-yr-lightz-enuf-awsom:screenshot-from-2013-08-31-185645.png?nolink|}} ===== Special offer ===== And... There is special, limited time offer just for you, as no one will be in our Hackerspace tonight. You can actually play with our Beautiful Server Side Component. Please, don't try to hack our lights to hard. The Arduino sketch and web page code will be tidied up and published on the very next day. ===== And upcoming openHAB hack-a-thon ===== And... There is one more thing. Thanks to [[https://twitter.com/kaikreuzer|@kaikreuzer]] there is something as wonderful as openHAB, an open source home automation server. I'm pretty sure that our Arduino Ethernet set-up is not currently supported. After implementing our lighting controllers and motion sensor modules we're going to host **openHAB hack-a-thon**, so please stay tuned our news stream on [[https://www.facebook.com/HackerspaceKrakow|Facebook]]! Yes, especially you, Java EE and embedded C developers! ====== Autoindex ====== {{indexmenu>blog:r-yr-lightz-enuf-awsom}}