LPW2014 Mike Whitaker Penfold Perl and the green Mill House mp4 ff
How to use Perl and some inexpensive sensors to track your house's power consumption (and generation, if you have solar panels). Covers a whole range of useful Perl topics, even if you're not interested in the specifics, including Perl on a Raspberry PI, talking to serial, USB and Bluetooth devices, the right and wrong ways to parse XML, calling an external C library, using AnyEvent, pack(), and other things. As well as a selection of cool hardware toys.
How to use Perl and some inexpensive sensors to track your house's power consumption (and generation, if you have solar panels). Covers a whole range of useful Perl topics, even if you're not interested in the specifics, including Perl on a Raspberry PI, talking to serial, USB and Bluetooth devices, the right and wrong ways to parse XML, calling an external C library, using AnyEvent, pack(), and other things. As well as a selection of cool hardware toys.