Comments on: Internet of Things Contest (aka The Easiest Contest Ever) https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/?s_tid=feedtopost Hans Scharler is an Internet of Things pioneer. He writes about IoT and ThingSpeak IoT platform features. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: willnue https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-655 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:24:28 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-655 I hope I’m not too late to the party!

My project involves a 1-Wire temperature network in combination with a Windows application I built called Seriot to log the data and send it to ThingSpeak. The application supports any serial device and supports running in Interactive, background and batch modes. See the charts link below for my latest sensor readings.

Temperature Sensor Network:
http://nuewire.com/2011/04/easy-arduino-1-wire-sensor-network/

Seriot logging application:
http://nuewire.com/seriot/

Charts:
http://nuewire.com/things/

willnue

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By: Lars Schumann https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-645 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:03:13 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-645 I might be late, but here is my weather station:

I used an Arduino, but I did not want to use the Ethernet Shield. The data is sent out over the serial port. A Processing sketch is listening to the serial port, graphs everything, and sends the data to ThingSpeak every 5 minutes. It shows how to connect to ThingSpeak in Processing (basically Java).

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By: Rob Myers https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-644 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:20:30 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-644 Here’s my entry, a script that keeps track of the colours in my studio,

complete with jQuery display of the data as suggested. 🙂

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By: ibtek https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-635 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:55:32 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-635 For Arduino powered devices, your API is sooo nice to work with! I can think of a million things to try but alas there is only so much time.

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By: Andrew https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-624 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:31:58 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-624 Thingspeak integrates really well with my existing application and makes monitoring from outside the network a lot easier.

http://www.quicktrip.co.nz/jaqblog/home/41-blogthingspeak

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By: Keegan https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-610 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:56:43 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-610 Here’s mine:
http://keeganmann.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/thingspeak-light-sensor-test/

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By: Harrison https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-606 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:38:13 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-606 Here is my project:
It’s an ethernet connected ‘weather station’ that uploads temperature and humidity data to ThingSpeak. It uses a Propeller Chip and a SHT11 sensor and is completely self contained only requiring an Ethernet connection (no PC needed).

BTW: I love ThingSpeak. I used to use rrdtool and a custom PHP frontend to graph sensor data. It wasn’t nearly as flexible or ‘cool’ as ThingSpeak.

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By: Jamie https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-600 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:35:07 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-600 Here is my project:
http://roebuj.blogspot.com/2011/04/it-all-started-last-spring.html

It currently is monitoring my attic temperature and computer closet in my basement. I plan to have several other sensors throughout the house and outside in an effort to make my house more efficient. Check my blog for more details and information about the project.

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By: Jamie https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-599 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:31:55 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-599 Here is my project. It currently is monitoring my attic temperature and computer closet in my basement. I plan to have several other sensors throughout the house and outside in an effort to make my house more efficient. Check my blog for more details and information about the project.

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By: Jamie https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-598 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:13:47 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-598 Here is my project! Thanks for the great service ThingSpeak! I look forward to all the future use. Check my blog for more details on the project.

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By: Paul Asselin https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-587 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:34:28 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-587 http://asselinpaul.posterous.com/shower-time-analysis-thingspeak-contest
Yep, this is my entry for the contest.
I’m pretty happy with the services, there quick to setup and pretty clear, keep up the good work.

Sincerely
Paul

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By: Brett Jones https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-585 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:57:55 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-585 I wrote a quick .net class to put in my applications that will utilize ThingSpeak. It currently posts data only (Data Fields, Status Updates and Location) but will be expanded to display a graph or parse through the data.

http://cobwebsonmymind.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/thingspeak-net-class/

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By: Chiva https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-584 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:12:26 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-584 Here is mine, it is based on Australian Robotics entry!
It updates a channel with the pixel distance the mouse has travelled each 20 seconds.
Just to let you know, Pixance = Pixel + Distance
https://github.com/chiva/Pixance

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By: bill welch https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-582 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:57:47 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-582 Here’s my entry: http://bvwelch.com/?p=195

It monitors the disk space on my server so I can quickly see if disk space is low… It is a modification of Chris’s nice cpu applet, and I also graph it on my WordPress blog.

To be practical, I only update once an hour, so it will take a few days before the graph looks nice.

Note I do give Chris full credit for the original idea, but I hope I’ve shown a useful variation and folks will think — ‘hey I can do better than that’.

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By: Frank Zhao https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-577 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:37:13 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-577 Here is my submission:

http://frank.circleofcurrent.com/thingspeak_mbed_tut1/

I never knew you guys existed, ThingSpeak is awesome. I’ve been looking for a datalogging database solution for embedded stuff, and Google Data API seemed like overkill for small microcontrollers.

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By: Evan Teitelman https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-574 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:23:25 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-574 Hopefully I’m not too late.
Here’s my project: paradoxial

It’s a random number generator.

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By: thingspeak https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-572 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:56:05 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-572 In reply to Australian Robotics.

Congrats – you are our first winner. The blog post is excellent. I will add a link from our tutorials page for Python scripting. Thanks!

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By: thingspeak https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-570 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:32:56 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-570 In reply to andy.

We will stop when we run out of gift certificates – we have 20…

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By: andy https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-569 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:31:23 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-569 when is the deadline?

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By: Australian Robotics https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/04/11/internet-of-things-contest-aka-the-easiest-contest-ever/#comment-564 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:21:20 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=531#comment-564 My entry: How to Talk To ThingSpeak With Python (A Memory/CPU Monitor)

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