On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > Gang, > > I haven't had much time on Zest lately, as I have been busy creating a > low-costWiFi capable, USB-powered temperature sensor. See > http://hedhman.org/~niclas/IndoorioD.jpg > > And for the fun of it, I ported FORTH programming language to the ESP8266 > CPU that is on this, in Assembler of course. Interpreter, Compiler, base > vocabulary (functions) and REPL in ~1000 assembler instructions, and the > full vocabulary in another 10kbytes or so. It has been a lot of fun.
This is the point where you got my attention 110% ;-) > This little puppy will go for one more round of prototypes next week, as I > want to add an external watchdog and tiny prototyping area for maker > community. Then I intend to make a field test with 100 units or so. > > So, why am I telling you all this? > > First of all, these guys will report the temperature back to a central > server every 15 minutes or so. And the management system on the server is > written with Zest. The rest is with Grafana and ElasticSearch. I am > considering trying to build a business around data capture, aggregation, > analytics and visualization. Anyone interested to join? I'd love to chat about what you've got in mind. > Secondly, I am looking for volunteers for my field test. It will probably > happen in April or so. If you participate, you will receive a USB powered > sensor as seen. Plug it into power somewhere for 6 months, connect to it > over WiFi, configure it to use your WiFi router over a simple web > interface, and keep it powered for 6 months. > If there are problems, I might ask for reboot. Hopefully not any firmware > upgrades. I'd love to help. More so than that -- I'd love to tinker. Thanks, Roman.
