Hey everyone,
I just discovering he world of Arduino and it's started to rekindle my interest in electronics. I have a few questions about an idea.
For a little background I'm an IT guy that hasn't done any electronics since college (about fifteen years ago) but I still remember a lot of the basics. Just to give you an idea, the last time I did any microprocessor programming was on the Intel 8008/MMD-1 in octal and the 6502 in hex!
Anyways, I have a humidor that is constantly getting dried out and I never hear the alarm that is built-in to the electronic humidifier. So I thought it would be great to have a device that would connect to my WiFi network and alert me whenever the humidity drops below a certain threshold. I haven't found anything available off the shelf and stumbled upon the Tweetidor (will try to post link in next message as this is my first post and it won't let me.)
It sounds great except I'd like to keep it wireless so I don't have a USB cable hanging out of my humidor or have to have it connected to a computer that is on all of the time.
My idea is to adapt the Tweetidor project for use with the Wishield to make things completely wireless. As I understand the libraries for the Wishield don't allow for SMTP connectivity at this time so I can probably just live with the built-in tweeting until I learn enough to make something myself.
My questions are a) does what I want to accomplish sound feasible using the Tweetador project as a starting point to interface with the Wishield and b) for someone with limited (and dated) programming and electronics skills would this be biting off more than I can chew for a first try?