Today I put the finishing touches to my Hackday 8 project. I didn't get it finished on Friday, because progress was blocked by a bug in the Mosquitto MQTT broker which stopped it communicating with the Arduino. Since these technologies are new to me I assumed I was doing something wrong. However, Andy Stanford-Clark helped me figure out that if I switched to using the Really Small Message Broker (RSMB) I could get it working.
All that is left for me to do now is to make a little movie of my project demonstration. I intend using Kino for this. It is unlikely to be an Oscar contender, but it will also be the first time I used Kino for anything more than chopping up videos into pieces and/or converting between video formats.
I will also submit a bug report to Mosquitto so that it can be fixed.
I can't really blog about the project in detail outside of IBM. It is not a very complex project, but I am proud of it because it is my first real Arduino project and also the first time I used MQTT.
Look forward to learning more about the project, Brian. I've just ordered my first Arduino starter kit so I'm hoping I can learn a lot from you :-)
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ReplyDeleteI just posted a full project report on the IBM intranet at http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/1GFI
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