Hi Maarten The Gridspy is a commercial product. At the moment we are manufacturing small runs of prototypes for development and testing, soon they will be available from our site on-line. We are making it "hacker friendly" and it has spare serial ports, digital and analogue inputs so electronics enthusiasts can make their own daughter boards. We hope it will then become a great way to take your inventions on-line. We consider our "secret sauce" to be the core hardware and the uplink to the web (including the twisted portion). Everything else on both ends will be open (still development efforts needed on SDK and documentation). You will be able to create an electronics gadget that sets the Gridspy / Nexus analogue and digital inputs and see those inputs changing in some script you wrote on the web via an RPC mechanism from our server. Right now our focus is on selling to commercial users here in Auckland, New Zealand (keep it local) to test the hardware. As production scales up, the pricing will become much more affordable for us normal people. Making our platform open and easy to work with is a cause close to my heart too. -Tom

Message: 3 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:14:30 +0200 From: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org> Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] Gridspy - a new project using Twisted To: Twisted general discussion <twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com> Message-ID: <200910260914.30601.maarten@treewalker.org> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15"

On Monday 26 October 2009, Tom Leys wrote:

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Gridspy provides you with an interactive view of resource usage in your building. It gives you hard data on your consumption patterns and helps you to make informed decisions.

How can other people get their own Gridspy? Do you plan to release it as a do-it-yourself project or as a commercial product?

Bye, Maarten

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