It would be nice if people hosted their pages on real web servers, instead of those toy sites, like Yahoo and GeoCities.

Posted at 9:18 am on Jul 21st, 2008 by jc

If you provided said web servers at a competitive (read: free) price I’m sure everyone would be pleased to suit you.

Posted at 10:29 am on Jul 21st, 2008 by farevalod

None of the links work. Geocities Fail

Posted at 11:00 am on Jul 21st, 2008 by Comm_Hawk

@1:
Really though – they’re not gonna pay to host a site they happen to put up for our benefit, documenting what they have done. They can’t help that hackaday has this tendency of destroying linked webservers.

Its a neat project mirroring existing commercial systems. good stuff.

Posted at 12:58 pm on Jul 21st, 2008 by Frollard

Great project, although I would have preferred an AD temperature measurement scheme. Adjusting set points would be greatly simplified and could be changed on the fly. The PIC16F716 would be a good choice and it’s internal clock would further lower the parts count.

Posted at 1:32 pm on Jul 21st, 2008 by backwash

can someone mirror this?

Posted at 6:20 pm on Jul 21st, 2008 by jake

http://web.archive.org/web/20021023165639/http://www.geocities.com/JDPetkov/Hardware/HomeHeat/HomeHeat.htm

Posted at 6:33 pm on Jul 21st, 2008 by Scott

I did something similar to this last year.
I wanted to replace my AC thermostat that used the old mercury bubble method to something programmable.

I built it out of a pic 16f88, a dallas ic for the temperature, two relays, and a 16×2 lcd display.

One thing that irked me about my current thermostat is that if the heat pump outside was running and the temperature was reached , the fan inside just shuts off. So all that cold refrigerant and those cold coils inside were just wasted energy.

I set my project to cut off the heat pump when the temp was reached but to let the fan inside blow for another 2 minutes. It actually did lower my electric bill .

Posted at 9:41 pm on Jul 21st, 2008 by Mark