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Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Pavel Zemskof

Pavel Zemskof — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:47:11 +0000

I am interested in examples of integrating your product sensor.

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by David Wilson

David Wilson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:54:44 +0000

I would like to see articles about tapping into or testing RF sources…like when testing/trouble shooting other “purchased” devices that have RF transmitters in them. There are a lot of devices like thermometers and rain gauges that use RF transmitters…so it would be nice to see a use of your products to test them.

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by earnest moodie

earnest moodie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:54:03 +0000

Please make the blueportXP auto negotiate the baud rate with the device serial port it is pluged into. This is an approach used by some termnal programs thus making the setting of baud rates automatic.

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Bob Chadwick

Bob Chadwick — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:34:58 +0000

I would like to see examples and discussion on implementing a wireless personal area network (WPAN) using the various available technologies (bluetooth, ZigBee, etc), along with strengths and weaknesses of each.
A really fun application would be a mesh network and hardware to control Christmas lighting. We need time to learn and build, so now would be a good time to begin this.
Another way to implement this application would be something similar to X10 (but more reliable) where all control and status is transmitted through the house AC wiring, and maybe compare this to the wireless approach.
So there’s an application and two ways to implement it… discussions galore!

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Mark VandenBerg

Mark VandenBerg — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:47:12 +0000

I would like more tutorials on fiber optic and the radio signal booster equipment

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Janne Antson

Janne Antson — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:36:33 +0000

Use cases and examples about integrating your sensor products (sensorprobe etc.) with external monitoring and control systems might be interesting.

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Richard B

Richard B — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:04:25 +0000

Something like “Home Hacker” where you can use your products to do things unusual or out of the ordinary.
Think “Out of the box.”

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Geoff Zerbe

Geoff Zerbe — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:25:07 +0000

I would like to see documentation/Q&A and customer submitted solutions for your products with links from the product pages. The individual product pages are pretty sparse so this is a good chance to improve them.

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Tom Theron

Tom Theron — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:15:49 +0000

What I’d call the Pothole Spot:

With about every product, be it a evaluation kit, design kit or device implementation, developers strike those inevitable “potholes”, not mentioned in the product documentation. If the blog spot can make provision for a general list per product that pinpoints these it can immensely help with shortening the time getting things up and running, without those “Aaah, if I only knew about that setting I would have had it running 2 days ago!” moments.

Example: I recently dealt with a product where an embedded Linux environment setup installation fails with certain Linux image/library combinations. But no list is provided of tested combinations of what works and what doesn’t work. It would have helped me to be able to install the right combination from the start.

Comment on Submit Your Ideas for a Free Grid Connect T-Shirt by Eric Woods

Eric Woods — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:03:35 +0000

I would like to see a detailed comparison of GridConnect’s Bluetooth products (e.g., Firefly) against the competition (e.g., AirCABLE). We’ve had much better success with the Firefly; I’m sure there are technical reasons why that is.