Randomly Designless » Projects http://www.cminion.com/wordpress A series of accidental projects Wed, 12 May 2010 11:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 MQTT Flashing Ducks http://www.cminion.com/wordpress/2009/01/19/mqtt-flashing-ducks/ http://www.cminion.com/wordpress/2009/01/19/mqtt-flashing-ducks/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:48:28 +0000 cminion http://cminion.com/wordpress/?p=9 Flashing Duck

Well First project was working, got a string of ducks to listen for a MQTT subscription.

However as soon as I took the picture it broke. It seems to be a linux thing. Will fix it soon.

Just need to work out what to do with them when they work.

This works with an  Arduino that takes a serial hex code that triggers the LEDs on or OFF.  I have a perl script that works on my server and listens for MQTT subscriptions on Ducks.  I got the Arduino code from “Making things talk” (link) it is a great book on the basics of Arduinos and networking with them.

]]> http://www.cminion.com/wordpress/2009/01/19/mqtt-flashing-ducks/feed/ 2 Well here we go http://www.cminion.com/wordpress/2009/01/18/well-here-we-go/ http://www.cminion.com/wordpress/2009/01/18/well-here-we-go/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:57:44 +0000 cminion http://cminion.com/wordpress/?p=3 Well here we are. I have finally set up a blog, this is mainly being done to keep a record of the little projects I work on, primarily geeky but other things may also be added.

I hope to write a  little more soon about what i have done/am doing, sort out a theme (PLEASE BINKY HELP) and actually find some time to do some more work on some projects.

I will still use some of my other not so well known blogging outlets,

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