Comments on Internet of Things Contest (aka The Easiest Contest Ever)

By: willnue

2011-04-18T07:24:28Z

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

By: Lars Schumann

2011-04-18T00:03:13Z

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).

By: Rob Myers

2011-04-17T21:20:30Z

Here’s my entry, a script that keeps track of the colours in my studio,

complete with jQuery display of the data as suggested. 🙂

By: ibtek

2011-04-17T05:55:32Z

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.

By: Andrew

2011-04-16T08:31:58Z

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

By: Keegan

2011-04-15T12:56:43Z

Here’s mine:
http://keeganmann.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/thingspeak-light-sensor-test/

By: Harrison

2011-04-15T05:38:13Z

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.

By: Jamie

2011-04-14T23:35:07Z

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.

By: Jamie

2011-04-14T23:31:55Z

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.

By: Jamie

2011-04-14T23:13:47Z

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.

By: Paul Asselin

2011-04-13T20:34:28Z

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

By: Brett Jones

2011-04-13T18:57:55Z

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/

By: Chiva

2011-04-13T18:12:26Z

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

By: bill welch

2011-04-13T15:57:47Z

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’.

By: Frank Zhao

2011-04-13T06:37:13Z

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.

By: Evan Teitelman

2011-04-13T01:23:25Z

Hopefully I’m not too late.
Here’s my project: paradoxial

It’s a random number generator.

By: thingspeak

2011-04-12T22:56:05Z

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!

By: thingspeak

2011-04-12T16:32:56Z

In reply to andy.

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

By: andy

2011-04-12T16:31:23Z

when is the deadline?

By: Australian Robotics

2011-04-12T05:21:20Z

My entry: How to Talk To ThingSpeak With Python (A Memory/CPU Monitor)