Browsing the tag Twitter
February 21, 2009
If you caught the recent article I wrote about my Twitter Burglar Alarm you might be wondering what the point is in using a message broadcast service like Twitter for communicating with your home. Broadcast messages are pointless for most home automation purposes - and in some cases you may actually prefer the messages to be protected from viewing by the public.
What was not obvious to some of those… Continue reading
February 9, 2009
A burglar alarm that tweets when an intruder enters the house? What with the fashion for Twitter lately, I thought I'd give it a go, and this also gave me the excuse I'd been looking for to try out the Arduino hardware platform.
