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Dear cocooners, My name is Daniel Berenguer and I'm the founder of panStamp, an open source project designed to measure and control things wirelessly. The project consists of panStamps, small wireless boards programmable from the Arduino IDE, and a set of libraries and software tools used to...

Hi experts! I come back here, after a long inactivity in the home automation field, with a new fresh question. I need to install a wireless security system in a yacht and I'm currently evaluating the available options. These are my needs: - Wireless detectors: smoke, intrusion, panic button...

Hi all, I've recently ordered a LCD kit from Hobby-Boards and, although it's still on the way, I wanted to know the typical use you give to the three input switches. Are you using them as simple pushbuttons maybe? If it's the case, what are you using those pushbuttons for? I just try to figure...

Hi cocooners! I'm happy to announce the immediate release of opn-one, our first opnode. opn-one is an embedded home automation network controller with web, xAP , xPL and 1-Wire interfaces. It's intended to work as 1-Wire master and turn the microlan into an intelligent HA network without the...

This is not the only comment I've found in the net talking about the new speech recognition engine that Windows Vista will include. Finally we'll have a spanish (and also french and german) VR system already integrated in the OS. http://tech-buzz.net/2006/08/09/vista-will...ch-recognition/...

Has anyone experience using leds for home lighting? Any improvements in efficiency heat emission, light quality or price? I've read somewhere that fluorescent bulbs still have the best lumens/watt ration. I think leds have a lot of possibilities in terms of dimming control. I'm interested in...