Category Archives: Projects

Pachube and the furnace project

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Just came across the website www.pachube.com. It allows a user to post data to their servers and then use their services to graph and otherwise manipulate the data. Think of it as the YouTube of dynamic data.

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Furnace monitor bugs

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

After the power outage and all the work involved with getting the household back up and running (I have never done that much laundry at one time) I had some time to work on the furnace monitor. I finished the … Continue reading →

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Working from home

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

At work I have been helping on a failure review board. Once every 10,000 boot cycles, sometimes the system gets stuck displaying the splash screen. They asked me to figure out a way to automate the booting and then to … Continue reading →

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“Playing Hookie”

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

Since I worked all day Saturday and finished my project at work, I decided to stay home today (Monday). Although I am using the time from Saturday to account for 40 hours this week, it still feels vaguely naughty staying … Continue reading →

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Moving Furnace Monitor over to RS-485

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

Last night I got the three primary zone circuits instrumented and connected to the Arduino. I also have the two thermistors working but I have yet to run the outdoor sensor through the house wall. All this has been done … Continue reading →

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Furnace Monitor

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

I have been up against a bug in my furnace monitor Arduini code for two days. The first night I looked for it I had had a rough day at work. My mind was spent. Last night (although it did take … Continue reading →

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Backup SW bug V2

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

Last night I spent some time with this bug. The problem is it takes several hours to reproduce and hence I get just one iteration a day. But what I found is that the reason the MD5 checksums do not … Continue reading →

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Bug in Backup Software

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

I recently went to backup a laptop drive that is in an USB chassis. The drive was an old backup drive. I connected it to my Linux box and mounted the drive. I then configured my backup software to perform … Continue reading →

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Home Energy Monitor (Furnace Editition)

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

Over the weekend I started building an interface for an Arduino to monitor my heating system as part of the whole house energy monitoring project. I happen to have a rather strange heating system. The house was built using all … Continue reading →

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Music CD Database

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Skye Sweeney

In keeping with my new saying “If you stumble on a barcode reader in the attic, then everything needs to be barcoded and/or scanned” I scanned in all my CD music library. Why?

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