Matt Daubneys Blog » velleman http://daubers.co.uk Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:34:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 USB Fun! http://daubers.co.uk/2009/07/23/usb-fun/ http://daubers.co.uk/2009/07/23/usb-fun/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:15:08 +0000 Matt http://daubers.co.uk/?p=212 I’ve been playing with a velleman k8055 USB experimentation boad and think I’ve finally come up with a use for this first board. I’m going to attempt to automate a few things in my room using a Linksys NSLU2.

The first thing to attempt is a nice simple one and does not involve touching any household electrics. A simple motor arrangement on the curtain rail to open the curtains in the morning and force me to get the hell out of bed!

The second thing I intend to do with it is a little more complex and will require some more research. I intend to somehow replace the dimmer switch in my room using the analgue output from the board. If anyone has any good references on what I need to read up to do this, let me know!

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