Luc Slutter demonstrated us his Domoticz project in which he connected wifi switches operated using Node-RED messaging and Witty Cloud. Domoticz is a Home Automation System that lets you monitor and configure various devices like lights, switches, various sensors/meters like temperature, rain, wind, uv, electra, gas, water and much more. Notifications/Alerts can be sent to any mobile device. Interesting stuff. When his project is finished he will organize a workshop on this topic.
In our continuing quest for the ultimate IoT killer application we came to the conclusion that we really shouldn't continue this quest but rather concentrate on playing with technology. Inspired by artists' slogan: "l'art pour 'l art" (Art for art's sake, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_for_art%27s_sake) we should have our own slogan: "Technology for technology's sake". Experimenting, learning and having a lot of fun is a goal on it's own. So building some kind of a digital Rube Goldberg machine seems a nice practical common goal for us. For those who wonder what a Rube Goldberg machine is, it's a "deliberately complex contraption in which a series of devices that perform simple tasks are linked together to produce a domino effect in which activating one device triggers the next device in the sequence" (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine). Therefore, we decided to define a message format describing some sort of "digital train" that will be able to travel across our various IoT devices and applications.
Next week's Wednesday Evening Training
In next week's Wednesday Evening Training, we'll get a nice electronics 101 session and we'll be starting a handson lab on creating a programmable LED cube (for a demo, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6P3jcxKh-k). Thanks in advance, Aishwarya Dhall and Harrie van der Plas, for preparing this!Further reading
Want to read more or try yourself? Here are some links...Get started with Blockly: https://developers.google.com/blockly/
Blockly GitHub sources and some great examples & labs: https://github.com/google/blockly
Blockly demo: https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/fixed/index.html
A neat Blockly codelab: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/blockly-web/index.html
An intro to Rube Goldberg's machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mId8huz1Q
Domoticz home automation: https://domoticz.com/
Domoticz source code: https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz
Using Domoticz with Raspberry Pi: https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
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