Know When a Sibling Goes In Your Bedroom

spiderspider · Apr 15, 2016

Remember the good old days, where you would go out and buy one of the big cans of beans or plum tomatoes. Not like the little ones we have now, but the big sized catering ones, Tesco, Kwik Save, Summerfields, Gateway all sold them. The kind that could be balanced on the top of a door, so when someone (sibling) opened the door, it would whack them on the head, and was easier to clean up than a bucket of water? It also taught them a very big lesson - Stay out my room.

Now-a-days, we have Nominet with their new IOT release. First we had flooding sensors, then the magic car park. Today, they bring us a bedroom alarm, or a class room temperature monitor.

This 'new' thingy, is really just a 'we can now talk to BBC micro:bit over wifi', unless I am missing something major here. All the applications they list, I remember doing in school electronics nearly 25 years ago!

These 2 articles have the details:
http://www.nominet.uk/researchblog/connecting-the-bbc-microbit-with-nominets-iot-tools/
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450281375/BBC-turns-microbit-computers-into-IoT-devices

However, I do feel that Nominet doing things like this, aren't really doing anything new, or revolutionary. I'm looking forward to their next release. I suspect it will be:
'After months of development, we have now decided to call our round roll along thingy 'A Wheel'

Maybe now they will have more cash flooding in, they can come up with something original to do.................