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Monthly Archive for February, 2012

AASaver Kit Temporarily Sold Out

The AASaver kit is now out of stock. In one day I’ve received about 92 orders, pretty crazy 🙂 I’ve placed another order of PCBs, and expect to have the kit back in stock in about three weeks. You can sign up to receive email notifications here: http://eepurl.com/jBK15, or alternatively, subscribe to my blog RSS […]

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What is AASaver? Well, simply speaking, it’s a small voltage booster that can bump the voltages on your AA batteries to 5V or 3.3V, which you can use to power flashlight LEDs or breadboard circuits. It has some nice features, including on-board flashlight LEDs, voltage selection switch, power switch, and breadboard pin headers. I like […]

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Rain/freeze sensors are useful for detecting rain or freeze conditions, and delays or stops watering accordingly. There are many types of rain sensors on the market. Recently I tried out this Orbit 57069 rain/freeze sensor. It’s very easy to connect to OpenSprinkler, and works quite well. The rain delay time can be easily adjusted by […]

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