There have been thausands of things done with microcontrollers, Do It Yourself stuff, the Internet of things movement... Still a few months ago when I wanted to do some custom set up for the heating system at home I ended up with buying 3 controllers and spending so much money.
Then I decided to do it on my own and spent more than 2 months in learning low level programming, trying stuff, even with digging into programming for RTOS. So I thought that there should definitely be a simpler way to start defining simple dependencies between devices. Here's the result - Agilart.
Thanks for sharing Andrew! I like one of Steve Job's quotes about this: 'Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose'. I also agree with you that what we have now are the only things that we might lose when something changes... so I'm glad that my family is ok, as far as the money side - I'm also a middle class person in a country that is known not to pay much to it's people, so I'm glad that I can try my luck somewhere else and I hope it works out for the best!
Thanks!!! I think I'm the only guy driving the project and I feel that it's going nowhere with just be giving the most of myself to make it happen... so I agree with you that may be this is not my problem but my boss's problem!
Yes, I totally agree!! Especially with the last quote. It's just that my boss is also trying to make me believe that it's stupid to go and it won't work... but I won't let him change my mind. However when he asked me why do you want to go, I said: - Cause I like the idea, I want to try and I'm sure I'll learn a lot on the way. How can this not be enough?
OK, I suppose there's no harm in sharing... and thanks for the response, so
Rio De Janeiro, 22, the $2000 that I have to pay off to my current company, the contingency plan would be just to find another job in IT...
so I'm pretty sure I should go, I just don't know why I feel so bad about leaving my current company and my project but I know that I may never have another chance like this.
I have a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino and even a Netduino and I've done a lot of stuff with them but still nothing that useful when it comes to real Home Automation. For example I'd love to open up the garage door from my phone, switch on the heating from work and so on... but I wonder what should I start from in order to get this running at home and should I go for it on my own in a DIY way or just go and see if I can buy something that is already in the market? I really don't wont to spend my nights in compiling low level C/C++ for arm microcontrollers... You've been working on your Arduino system for an year... why do you think it takes so much time? What does it do?