Back in early 2010, I announced the beginning of my open-source “Arduinometer” project, and released the code and schematics to build your own. This year, I’ll be upgrading the Arduinometer (running on the Arduino platform) to the Netduino: running the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework and is also open-source.
The Netduino Plus offers on-board LAN as standard, and together with a much richer toolset (the Visual Studio 2010 environment is far superior to the Arduino environment) I am planning to include the following additional features:
- Support for up to 16 metered devices
- Compatibility with pulse-output, photoreflective and magnetic counters
- Web-based administrative interface
- EEML output (for Pachube, and others etc.)
This project is still very much in the planning phase so I am keen to hear suggestions and your feedback before I get too stuck in. So, if there’s anything you think would be a particularly good idea, please get in touch. If you’d like to get involved a little further and sink your teeth into writing some code, drop me an email or leave a comment on this post and we’ll see about setting you up with access to the repository.
Happy metering!
Richard Parker 
Yes, all is logical
P.S. Please review icons
I’d be realy grateful if you would visit…
http://sheepdogsoftware.co.uk/sc2wy.htm
…. and tell me if the information there is more or less right!
I’ve started a thread in the Aruduino Forums, Hardware/ Interfacing thread… “Pachube…” where you could “tell everyone”. No offense taken at critical comments! I just want to get Pachube out of my system!!!!