Hackaday monitor and Lighting Box is officially out of the competition!

I'm not very surprised, compared to most of the projects that made the final 50 and to a huge number from those 750 that didn't make it, Hackaday monitor doesn't look like much. I hoped to be in the last 5 of those 50, but the competition was too big :)

Congratulation for every member of the final 50 projects!

Is it over?

No!

My goal for this project is to learn how to finish a simple project from the beginning to the very end. I want to create a product that is consumer ready - well, almost. I don't intend to sell it or anything, but I want to finish it:

• it needs to work without crushing / hanging,
• have a nice enclosure,
• have a user friendly interface.

Those are my goals and I intend to stick with them. Hopefully not having a fixed deadline will allow me to fulfill them all.

What next?

I'll start coding the API for the communication between Spark Core and OlinuXino. I decided to use C++ on the OlinuXino. I was considering Python for a while, however Python's memory usage is much less deterministic than that of C++. Since RAM will be limited, I don't want to waste many hours of programming just to wakeup with random crashes due to memory problems.

I'm considering a change of name. This is because my original idea of Hackaday article monitor was greatly expanded after initially creating the project. I also don't want to set overambitious goals or implement too many features which may prevent the completion of this project . I have to think about this more.