Well, in addition to the serial port that is on this thing, a few of the pins can be used for sensored IO, or like binary signals. So at a very rudimentary level, someone could hook one of these pins up to the Light on their fridge, or the heating wires on their toaster, and with out any serial ASCII output, you could get a very basic ON / OFF reading. Couple that with a little bit of databasing & timing software, and you could have appliances track their own energy useage.
just an idea... I'd be more usefull if I could get my kitchen to e-mail me my breakfast.
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Well, in addition to the serial port that is on this thing, a few of the pins can be used for sensored IO, or like binary signals. So at a very rudimentary level, someone could hook one of these pins up to the Light on their fridge, or the heating wires on their toaster, and with out any serial ASCII output, you could get a very basic ON / OFF reading. Couple that with a little bit of databasing & timing software, and you could have appliances track their own energy useage.
just an idea... I'd be more usefull if I could get my kitchen to e-mail me my breakfast.
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