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Tweet-a-watt - our entry for the Core77 & Greener Gadgets design competition
MAKE Magazine —
Here's what we entered, the Tweet-a-watt, for the Core77 & Greener Gadgets design competition...
Using "off-the-shelf hardware", we have modified a Kill-a-Watt(TM) power meter to "tweet" (publish wirelessly) the daily KWH consumed to the user's Twitter account (Cumulative Killowatt-hours). We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project - in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods.
Here's how it works, the modified Kill-a-Watt ...
Tweet-a-Watt tweets your energy usage
CrunchGear —
Make’s Phil Torrone entered this odd gadget, the Tweet-a-Watt, in the Green Gadgets design competition. It’s essentially a Kill-a-Watt with a capacitor and transmitter added that will Tweet your current power usage using a nearby computer or wireless Arduino mini PC.
Phil powered the transmitter using a large capacitor that charges, transmits, and then discharges over time. They then used an XBee module to transmit the information read by the Kill-a-Watt, giving you an up-to-the-minute reading of your energy usage. ...
Tweet-a-Watt Shows Friends/Strangers How Energy Efficient You Are [Smug Alert]
Gizmodo —
... What our buddy Phil Torrone has done as an entry in Core77's Greener Gadgets competition is made it useful as a tracker, or maybe a bragger. ...
Tweet-a-Watt, Because It's OK To Brag About Energy Efficiency [Smug Alert]
Gizmodo —
... What our buddy Phil Torrone has done as an entry in Core77's Greener Gadgets competition is made it useful as a tracker, or maybe a bragger. ...
HOW TO - Make your own Tweet-a-Watt
MAKE Magazine —
... , a twittering power meter that can show your friends, your followers and the world how much power you are (or are not) consuming. We entered this in the Green Gadgets design competition, wish us luck! ...
Printer that uses coffee as ink and other concepts from the Greener Gadgets Design Competition
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... The Green Gadgets Design Competition is underway, and frankly just about every submission in the list would be worth contemplating by itself, but I'd rather suggest you pop over to the site and browse around and vote for your own favorites. ...
The best of the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, so far
Engadget —
... The Greener Gadgets Conference is coming up in a few weeks here, so we thought we'd bring you some highlights of the design competition it's sponsoring. First up, Recompute is a fully sustainable design for a desktop computer -- meaning that ...
Celebrate St Paddy’s Day with these 5 Green Gadgets!
Gadgetell —
... would just then be filled up with tons and tons of green gadgets. We weren’t really getting to the root of the problem, which in his mind was overspending and buying a bunch of stuff we don’t really need. So, he came up with all these different little techie wallets that each represent one of the Seven Deadly Sins and make those overindulgent shopping sprees just a little more difficult to carry out. You can see his designs and more about how they work here. ...
