He managed to build his own monitor using an Arduino. The trick of this build has to do with how the system works. The panel includes an LED light that blinks 1000 times for each kWh of electricity.

Automatic code generation from system block diagramshas been around for decades and is an entrenched way ofdeveloping embedded control systems and performing hardware-in-the-loop testing at many ...

All the code is available on GitHub in case you also have a DSC 1550 alarm system. It’s a pretty slick hack, so don’t forget to check out the video after the break.

Now, let's make things move with your Arduino code. For this example, let's control the movement of a servo—that is, start and stop the servo and control its speed and rotation. Three wires protrude ...