Tell us what you are building!

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Hey everyone,

Last time someone asked this question I was blow away to find out different projects from a number of community members.
I'm feeling social today and wanted to ask the same question again.

So, what are you building these days?

PS: inspired by true events, while opening a new box today:

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Prizes include community respect and admiration, since this is not an official Particle contest!
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To get the ball rolling...

Recently, I've developed a strong interest in BLE comms, evident in my latest projects:

Cheers

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Not a hardware project, but I built an app sometime back to trigger cloud functions on offline devices when they come online.

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Hey, that's a nice one.
Do you think today this could be implemented with Particle Ledger?

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I have not tried it out, but I believe that it could. I use cloud functions to set device side settings and trigger actions. The ledger would be a better approach for setting device/fleet settings. It could also be used to trigger tasks as well.

A common pattern for me is to check for a flag set by a cloud function to trigger code, it would be pretty easy to add an additional condition to check for the equivalent ledger flag.

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I’ve got a few projects:

  1. measuring salt level in a water softener tank using a ultrasound distance sensor, JSN-SR04T, and a photon 2. All connected to an adafruit IO dashboard.

Easy tells me how many bags of salt I need.

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I’m also watching the performance of my two AC units. I can see how many times they come on and also watch how cold it’s getting at the AC outlet. I’ll be working up a way to measure power in an effort to try to get some savings.

All connected to adafruit IO dashboard using simple thermistors.

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Hey Zac, pretty cool projects you have there, thanks for sharing them with us!