Add your name to the list below to attend the next home Camp.
Saturday 25th April 2009, 10am until 6pm.
Bash Creations, 65-71 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4PJ.
Head over to the blog for new videos and Home Camp announcements.
(please add photos to the Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/homecamp/)
You can see videos from Home Camp 08 over at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/homecamp.
We have a HomeCamp sim on ReactionGrid, OpenSim. More details here.
You can see the Home Camp 08 Page Here
Home Camp is an unconference and the content is very much driven by attendees. Join the discussion on the Home Camp Google Group
Martin Dix of CurrentCost has generously offered a new individual appliance monitor to participants.
Those who registered their address before Tuesday 28 April should receive this by post in the coming days.
Martin has confirmed that the boards have arrived, and should be dispatched on Thursday 30 April.
56. Simon Perry @simonperry Digital-Lifestyles
57. James Norris Nitro Mobile Social Media Strategist
58. Simon Yapp Twitter
59. David Balharrie Twitter
60. MikeTheBee twitter.com/mikethebee
61. Brent Bucknum [on behalf of the hyphae design laboratory]
62. Tish Shute Twitter, Ugotrade
63. Chris Hart Twitter, ReactionGrid
64. Tim Duckett @timd www.adoptioncurve.net
65.
66. Damian Finn
67. Saqib Shaikh (http://twitter.com/SaqibS)
68. Lawrence Griffiths http://www.avek.co.uk
69. John Price (john@nxtgenug.net)
70. Bart Van Der Meerssche Jokamajo Flukso
71. Trystan Lea http://www.openenergymonitor.org
72. Steve Lamb twitter
73. Mark Hindess http://www.xpl-perl.org.uk/
74.
75. Jon Menzies-Smith
76. Jakub Czaplicki twitter.com/kupsztal (I'll be there @ ~ 12:00 )
77. Duncan Wilson http://twitter.com/djdunc http://blogs.driversofchange.com/emtech/
78. George Weller
79. James Devine http://twitter.com/pingu_98
80. Greta Corke http://www.diykyoto.com http://twitter.com/gclondon
81. Robert Lee-Cann twitter
82. Iain Sharp website and blog
83. Annie Spinster http://anniespinster.wikidot.com
84. Carl Collins
85. Laurie Reynolds http://twitter.com/lauriekr
Nicholas Humfrey twitter.com/njh
Jamie Young blog
Andy Piper twitter.com/andypiper blog CC iPhone app (sorry to pull out! looking forward to following blogs, video and twitter etc.)
Gordon Joly http://www.theloopzilla.org/
Rob Smart @robsmart robsmart.co.uk (also had to pull out :( )
Andrew Whitehouse @awhitehouse
Jamie I twitter.com/jamiei blog (Very upset to have to pull out but will look forward to catching up with the blogs, videos and twitter reporrts after).
Roo Reynolds twitter.com/rooreynolds rooreynolds.com (sorry.. can't be there but have fun without me)
Dirk Krause, twitter.com/dirkk0
Gavin Bell twitter.com/zzgavin (unable to attend, have fun)
Warren Moore Twitter (sorry, can't make it. will follow online. have fun!)
Charlton Barreto twitter.com/charltonb blog (sorry, won't be able to attend, have fun)
Please suggest a topic for a session at Home Camp. Get involved. We are not asking everyone to present a topic, but we welcome everyone to present a topic at Home Camp.
1. Current Cost basics - xml, databasing, graphing. posting to pachube and external services (Chris Dalby)
2. Low power servers/computing devices - Talk about the work 3fficient is doing to reduce server and compute power consumption (@folknology)
3. Using AMEE for neutral energy data aggregation (James Smith & Jamie Andrews).
4. Quick reports on projects that are up and running since last time
5. What do we know about meters being installed (based on submissions)
6. Google's PowerMeter project
7. Can this group help to develop 'lego' bricks to allow a wider net of non-techies to start innovating? Eg. a brick that turns things on and off depending on temperature range/temperature difference or a brick that measure sunlight and sends output as a message... Like code snippets that work within a framework, but actual devices that someone without soldering skills can use.
8. Onzo - where we are at - and hackability of our Smart Energy Kit
9. The Web of Things: Home Automation on the Web. Plug and play devices and built your own mashups on top of an ecosystem of Web-enabled objects. We will show some prototypes of our current work, and illustrate fast prototyping of applications using our soon-to-be-released-in-open-source software.
10. Spreading the word, how to get schools and community involved in 'maker' projects to raise awareness of smart homes in practice. (requested by MikeTheBee)
11. Happy to present on EnOcean self-powered wireless sensors & systems which are widely used in building automation. [I have declare a conflict I distribute this stuff for a living but it means have lots toys to show] (Lawrence Griffiths).
12. Flukso is a community metering application developed by the Jokamajo Institute. We'd be happy to present the application and share its implementation details.
13. John Price is happy to present on using Windows Media Center as the hub to control devices around the home - if you would like.
14. A Nudge and a Wink - Changing behaviours - A short session on what behavioural economics and psychology teach us about system design that creates change. (Benjamin Ellis).
15. Pachube.com roundup: lots of things have progressed since the last homecamp, including expansion of the API, the launch of the Pachube.apps repository and a number of community-contributed tools, libraries and apps, so we can talk about these and answer any questions in person.
16. If I'd attended I was going to talk about my Twittering weather station. (andypiper)
17. Would be interesting to have a round-up / comparison of the different home energy monitoring solutions / devices.
CurrentCost data parsing:
Additional resources for Current Cost hacking :-)
MQTT:
Kinda like RSS for small devices, but without the polling bottleneck issues:
Open source client, written in Ruby - http://mqtt.rubyforge.org/
Not sure where to put other links about energy monitoring (not current cost). Pls advise.
Here's one on @paul_tanner's blog.
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