Hello all,

Quick question - Anyone used any of the following for home/small scale projects? This is going towards a project I'm doing and I would like some advice, if anyone out there has any! Alternatives are also welcome if you don't like what's listed below:

Currently cut the list down to the following:

Arduino, Netduino, Gadgeteer and RFID

Cost wise - I'm trying to demonstrate all this on minimum cost so please do keep that in mind.

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

i havent but it all sounds very very interesting, will you keep a build thread?

what are your plans with the board n coding etc?

Depends... isn't that a great answer.

I've dabble with Arduino, but not gotten much further than a twitter scroller on an lcd panel.

That needed a network shield, a lcd panel, those two alone cost in the region of 50quid, maybe more.

It's alot of fun, I've not heard of Netduino, Gadgeteer, but I guess the former is a .net implementation of Arduino?

Are the projects top secret?

I heard a guy on the radio talking about a arduino based map, the map was his local cycle stations (London) which had a net feed to indicate availability. As he left he could look on the wall at the map with green and red led's and know which station to head for... that I thought was a very good and logical project.

i havent but it all sounds very very interesting, will you keep a build thread?

what are your plans with the board n coding etc?

I can do a build thread if you are interested? - Boards/Coding will all be done by myself!

Depends... isn't that a great answer.

I've dabble with Arduino, but not gotten much further than a twitter scroller on an lcd panel.

That needed a network shield, a lcd panel, those two alone cost in the region of 50quid, maybe more.

It's alot of fun, I've not heard of Netduino, Gadgeteer, but I guess the former is a .net implementation of Arduino?

Are the projects top secret?

I heard a guy on the radio talking about a arduino based map, the map was his local cycle stations (London) which had a net feed to indicate availability. As he left he could look on the wall at the map with green and red led's and know which station to head for... that I thought was a very good and logical project.

Project isn't top secret - It's for my final year project at univeristy. I'm currently focused on Home Automation and trying to move away from/seek alternatives to the X10 gear out there.

This is all following on from my placement at IBM and reading up on Andy Stanford-Clark's work done on his house. It's a great topic and I really don't get why it hasn't taken off yet. So, decided to try and master this. I'm a code monkey so that side isn't really an issue!

Just on the off-chance, if you want something with a little bit more power, I have at home (somewhere) an AMD Geode GX2 system; a Viglen MPC, 256MB of RAM, x86 instruction set, can't remember if the case has an official form factor designation but it's pretty small, 40GB hard drive, 100Mb/s Ethernet. If it's any good for your project then you're more than welcome to it if you cover the postage, I haven't used it for ages since I upgraded to an Atom-based "home server".

I can do a build thread if you are interested? - Boards/Coding will all be done by myself!

Project isn't top secret - It's for my final year project at univeristy. I'm currently focused on Home Automation and trying to move away from/seek alternatives to the X10 gear out there.

This is all following on from my placement at IBM and reading up on Andy Stanford-Clark's work done on his house. It's a great topic and I really don't get why it hasn't taken off yet. So, decided to try and master this. I'm a code monkey so that side isn't really an issue!

Rob, OT, but which IBM site did you go to?

Rob, OT, but which IBM site did you go to?

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