Hackspace Instrumentation

Our always-on little server will be used to collect data from the HackSpace and provide a number of interfaces for the presentation of that data. This will be for "the things we want to know about" and various interesting statistics.

• door contacts
  • We'll want to do the main HackSpace door first
  • I got a nice reed-magnet contact switch from expolinkalarms.co.uk on ebay for £1.65
  • I taped it next to the door to install next weds Michael Erskine 13:21, 10 February 2011 (GMT)
  • I brought in some Tyco 6-core alarm cable - there's lots of this in my free-issue cable store at work.
• temperature
• light level
• PIR
• dance-mat floor pressure switch (!)
  • I have one in the store room
  • it might be useful to use it on the floor just inside the store room

PC interface

• serial and parallel ports available
• USB ports available
• we could arduino it if we want

Michael Erskine 13:21, 10 February 2011 (GMT)