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EcoHome Lab: Fieldtrip special!

This month is an Eco-home Lab special! We’re on a field trip to New Mills, Derbyshire, to visit regular Eco-home Lab-er Mike’s home featuring two heat pumps, 13 Raspberry Pi’s (or more), underfloor heating in the house and in the green-house, etc, etc, etc. The house is a B&B and features a brewery, what’s not to like!

The plan is:

  • Meet at Piccadilly station at 17:00
  • Take the train at 17:17 to New Mill Central (Northern line)
  • Arrive to New Mill Central at 17:45 and a 30 min jolly walk to Mike’s place
  • If it’s more convenient for you to take another route, let us know so we ensure we all get there one way or another

For the return there are several options:

  • Train from New Mills Newtown at 20:52 (arrives at Piccadilly at 21:30)
  • Train from New Mills Central at 21:30 (arrives at Piccadilly at 22:05)
  • Train from New Mills Newtown at 21:50 (arrives at Piccadilly at 22:31)

Also if anybody fancies staying, they have 4 room of B&B. To book, best to ring [masked]) or email ([masked]) – £30 per person per night inc. breakfast

Mike proposes the following agenda:

  • The use of Raspberry Pis for control including
    • Greenhouse heat storage
    • Power monitoring
    • Heatpump control
    • Heating and lighting
    • Beer fermentation control
    • The use of Node-red for the above
    • Joining it all together with MQTT
  • 45 mins showing the Node-red and MQTT
  • Then sampling of beer

RSVP and reserve your place via MeetUp

Event Details

Location New Mills
New Mills, Drbyshire
Start Thursday 13 Jul 2017 5:00pm
Finish Thursday 13 Jul 2017 10:30pm


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