Tweet-a-Watt wins Greener Gadgets design competition

February 27, 2009 By 28 Comments
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The team behind the the Tweet-a-Watt/Wattcher just won first prize at the Greener Gadgets design competition. The device is a hacked Kill A Watt that transmits power consumption using an XBee. After checking out DVICE's preview of the competitors yesterday, we're happy to see a prototype win instead of just a concept sketch. … [Read more...]

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Wattcher, twittering Kill A Watt plans posted

January 24, 2009 By 20 Comments
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You probably saw [Phillip Torrone] and [Limor Fried]'s twittering Kill A Watt earlier this week. It was an entry in the Core77/Greener Gadgets Design Competition. We saw a little bit about how it was assembled, but now they've posted a full guide to assembling the hardware. Each Kill A Watt gets an XBee radio that transmits back to a receiver that logs the power usage. The difficult part when … [Read more...]

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