Category Archives: Arduino

Pi shall tweet unto Arduino

Posted on September 16, 2012 by blogmywiki

More work to do, but big breakthroughs with FridgeGizmo today. I got the RaspberryPi pulling London weather and random worldwide tweets and trends and displaying them on my LCD display via an Arduino Uno. I installed Apache 2, the Apache … Continue reading →

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Displaying Yahoo London weather in Celsius on Arduino LCD

Posted on September 12, 2012 by blogmywiki

I’ve cracked it! I have got my proto-fridge-gizmo to display the weather for London in centigrade. The key is to tweak the YQL query to read: select * from weather.forecast where location=”UKXX0085″ and u=”c” &format=json In PHP you’ll need to … Continue reading →

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This is London

Posted on September 11, 2012 by blogmywiki

I managed to get my FridgeGizmo prototype to display the weather in London! Ok, it’s in Fahrenheit, but it’s London weather! Lahhhhhvery! Where I was going wrong was by not realising that of course the US zip codes were stored … Continue reading →

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Fridge Gizmo step 2

Posted on September 10, 2012 by blogmywiki

As you may know, I have a dream of a gizmo on my fridge that tells me the weather, some tweets and what time my next train is due. I’m trying to build this using an Arduino, an LCD display … Continue reading →

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Fridge gizmo

Posted on September 7, 2012 by blogmywiki

My dream of a gizmo stuck to the fridge to tell me my next train time, the weather and certain tweets got a step closer today. I ordered an Arduino shield with a 2 line LCD display and some buttons … Continue reading →

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