I’ve been working on an arduino power monitor for the Flying Monkey arts collective. I wrote about it originally
over here on my personal blog.

Arduino Power Monitor

It’s complete, and I think it’s functional. In order to do the final checkout, I have to put it on a wired net, as all that’s available here (at antitronics) at the moment is wireless.

I ended up finding arduino code that Maurice Ribble had written that was almost exactly what I needed, which made it very easy.

Provided that it works, the only remaining thing to be done before putting it into service is to check it against some sort of calibrated standard, or at least to use an accurate AC current meter to compare the output of the current probes with the A/D values that the arduino reads. It should be OK as the analog front end came out of another current monitoring project, but I need to check it.

The announcement mailing list is up and running. If you signed up on the piece of paper at the space you should get an invitation. If you didn’t sign up or don’t get an invitation and want to get announcements, then you can sign up here.

There shouldn’t be much email from this list, and it will include announcements of when I’m going to be sharpening things at the space.

We’ve been limping along with a skeleton web site for a while, and it was time for a change.

Looking at other hacker spaces, I liked the look of the nycresistor site, and noticed that they used wordpress. I haven’t looked at WP for a long time, so I had another look and it’s much more usable now than the last time I used it. So I installed WP and a nice theme and we’re off and running with a minimum of fuss.

We’re still in the process of getting in gear and getting our rhythm going. We’ll be scheduling classes and such, and putting our store on line soon. In the meantime, sign up for our announcement list, and come by to see us on Saturdays.