An internet connected soil moisture sensor

The Electric Imp makes it so easy to put things on the web to make that web of things everyone is talking about. I decided to build a soil moisture sensor that alerts when pl ...

Fancy LEDs with Electric Imp

For no particular reason I felt a sudden urge for an Internet-connected RGB LED strip that can produce various light patterns. Just for fun really. But who knows what awesome uses it might have. I de ...

CouchDB on Raspberry

Installing CouchDB on Raspberry is very easy. Start with sudo apt-get install couchdb and you'll have a complete installation very soon, with CouchDB started for you jus ...

node.js and forever and init.d

Here's how I set up init.d on my Raspberry to launch forever at start. Forever then keeps my node.js weather server running. Big thanks to @ikr for his help! #!/bin/bash BEGIN INIT INFO ...

The Electric Imp is no Whimp!

Now this is a cute little devil. A wifi enabled micro controller in an SD package, with onboard support for various digital I/O. First I didn't quite get it, but after 10 minutes pondering I had an [E ...