Category Archives: computers

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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Which is better: Arduino or Raspberry Pi? There’s only one way to find out…

Posted on August 27, 2012 by blogmywiki

…join them together! But seriously, they are very different things for very different purposes, and it’s a bit sad that some hard-core Arduino fans hate the Raspberry Pi (though perhaps understandable). The Arduino is a relatively expensive (for its processing … Continue reading →

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