MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard which describes the protocols and digital interface to control electronic music instruments, recording equipment, drum machines and lights. First published in 1981 the MIDI standard still remains the number 1 protocol possibly used by all manufacturers of music instruments today. I have for some time been […]
Armed with the knowledge about how meters have a ‘pulse’, I was then able to start building a sensor and simple Arduino sketch (C++ code) to calculate my electricity consumption. Power v’s Energy Before I started, I needed to understand some basic terminology about electricity! I did not fully appreciate the difference between Power and […]
For the past year and a half I have habitually been recording my Gas and Electricity meter readings (my wife would probably say it was an obsession!). Each week I would clamber under the stairs armed with my iPhone flashlight, crawling through the dust I would read the digits from my old ‘dumb’ meters. I […]