Would You Like More Control Over Your Electricity Usage?
For a while now I’ve been wondering about how to green our homes. Over on the company blog I’ve just announced the Mazzini Project, the latest idea along these lines that I’ve been playing around with.
It’s a wireless power-monitor combined with a control unit so that as well as letting you know exactly how much electricity whatever is plugged into it is using, you can also turn it on and off remotely. I’m still just building the first prototype (I was wiring together circuits and measuring things with the multimeter just this afternoon) but I wanted to start talking about the idea to see what people thought.
I’ve put some slides together to try to explain it in more detail, so please have a look at them and let me know what you think. Is it a good idea? Would you buy one? How would you hack one to do things I haven’t thought of?
If you want to see the slides full-screen, then you can do that from this page.
