MY CHOSEN FEED:
I had never heard of an arduino before, in fact I had never heard of anything like the pachube website before, how on earth do you stumble across a site like this? What's more is, how on earth do you understand this website!
At first glance, I was un-interested and confused, until I noticed a recurring theme of the arduino (see http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/04/just-what-is-an/ for what I think is a pretty good explanation.
The feed that I have chosen (link at the top of this post) as the one which interested me the most on the pachube website is titled "Home Monitoring". A brief explanation follows..."Domotics project: Two Arduinos control the home and measure stuff, they talk to each other using I2C. One of them communicates via USB with an apache webserver which interfaces the house with my iPhone or any web-enabled device at the time it sends data to Pachube for data logging. It all runs on backup batteries in case there is a power outage. A third Atmega uC watchdogs the two main units if they ever freeze."
The arduino is controlling things such as room temp, light, power supply and the alarm system in someone's home in Satiago, USA.
Hmm, interesting!
Photo: "Blog; The Geek Whisperer" http://geekwhisperin.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/arduino-is-the-future/, accessed 25 Jul 2011.
