http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com Embedded geekery and similar pursuits Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:19:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnimaopenwrt-and-xbee/ http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnimaopenwrt-and-xbee/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:19:02 +0000 Kelvin http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/?p=433 Omnima Embedded Board to an Xbee device, using it as a low-cost and low-power controller for a home Xbee network. This article explains how to configure an Omnima with OpenWRT/Linux such that is capable of talking to an Xbee device using Python and Pyserial. Continue reading]]> http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnimaopenwrt-and-xbee/feed/ 0 http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/2009/02/twitter-burglar-alarm/ http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/2009/02/twitter-burglar-alarm/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:29:22 +0000 Kelvin http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/?p=103 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.

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