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What happened in the web/software industry is now happening with hardware: the distance between an idea and its materialization has shortened, and objects can now be created anywhere on the planet, more easily and cheaply than ever .
Slowly but surely, the capability to create objects is going down to the general public. Arduino is the poster child of the revolution, an open source board than almost anyone can use at his advantage to create simple applications in a matter of minutes
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A few months back, I bought a Current Cost electricity meter, hacked that and started pushing the data up to Pachube and displaying real-time electricity usage right here on my blog. But, electricity is only one part of the picture – we also use gas for our heating and hot water systems, and I wanted to track our usage of this too. The catch, of course, is that there doesn’t appear to be a consumer product on the market to do this for me, and I really wanted an excuse to go out and buy an Arduino and start playing with that.
My goal for this project was to hook the gas meter up to Pachube, using EEML as the format:
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