Zak McKracken's blog
Home automation, retro stuff and .NET

August 2012 Entries

Weather station with .NET - Part 1

I’ve always been a fan of those little ARM-boards that can be programmed with C#. So far, I was playing around with a Netduino-board in my office. I use it for automatic testing my software where I need to simulate user action like pressing a (physical) button on a device every minute. This is a very simple task which does not use the potential of this board. So, for my house automation I use a function, which I call “shield”: The shield function will lower or raise the blinds in certain rooms if ......