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Home Automation Kit Includes Arduino, RasPi Dev Boards
DeviceGuru writes "WigWag has developed a home automation kit that combines a Linux-based 6LoWPAN router with sensor units running the open-source Contiki IoT (Internet of Things) OS. Users can add ZigBee, Bluetooth, and other modules to expand the home network, and the WigWam development kit provides shield development boards for use with Arduino and Raspberry Pi SBCs. Users control the devices with a smartphone app (initially Android-based) and associated WigWag cloud service, which lets the devices remotely respond to sensor-based events such as motion detection, rain, noise, etc. Developers can create rules-based scripts for controlling devices using WigWag's open-source Javascript-based DeviceJS development environment. WigWag used a Kickstarter page to fund production and has already tripled its goal."
I'd rather read a book from someone who lives humbly and serves humbly.
Donating billions of dollars to various charities is not humble?
That's right. Humility has nothing to do with how much money you give away. That's philanthropy.
One could even say that donating billions of dollars to specific charities shows a lack of humility, and a desire to control how things are done by others. While I would consider Bill Gates as MUCH more humble than the late Steve Jobs, I think you'll find Steve Wozniak has them both beat by many miles. Once he made it big, he immediately started seeing how he could use that money to make everyone's life better, even if there was no benefit for himself (financially, politically or in any other way other than "it feels good to help").
While I find the idea interesting, I'm annoyed at the fact that it's useless without WigWam's cloud service. I've been burned too many times already, so I'm not particularly willing to build a complex home automation setup just to have the whole thing turned to a set of bricks because WigWam got bought by Yahoo (who seem to shut down every startup they buy), or just ran out of money.