Monitor and control the temperature of your home remotely. Want a smart air conditioner without having to buy a new one? Retrofit your existing window unit with littleBits and turn it into an internet-connected device. Forget to turn the AC off? No problem, just press a button on your phone to turn it off! Cool down your apartment on the way home from work? Save energy and save $$$ with this easy DIY project.*Note: The AC Switch, IR transmitter, and temperature sensor are coming soon. How it works:Monitor - The temperature sensor transmits data through the cloudBit to Cloud Control. You will be able to see the temperature readout in cloud control under the “receive” tab. When at home, you will also be able to see the temperature displayed on the number module. Now you can always know the temperature in your apartment/house.Control - Use Cloud Control to turn your AC unit on or off using the IR transmitter and the AC switch. When you press the button in Cloud Control, you send a signal to the cloudBit in your home.

This signal is passed on to the IR transmitter, which outputs a burst of infrared light. [Note: you won’t be able to see this burst of light because the IR spectrum is not visible to the human eye. This is the same control technology used in your television's remote control]. The AC switch has an infrared sensor that picks up this burst of IR light and toggles the window unit’s power on and off.Automate - Use IFTTT to automatically turn your AC unit on/off in response to conditions that you set. does a portable ac unit need a windowIFTTT (If This Then That) is a service that lets you connect to different web apps through simple conditional statements. thru wall ac/heater unitsUse the Date & Time channel to turn your AC on at 5pm and off at 8pm, or create a location based trigger that turns your AC unit on when you enter your home zone with the iOS or Android Location channels.ac unit cooling capacity

How To Make It Set up your cloudBits if you haven’t done so already. Instructions for setting up the cloudBit can be found here. Rocket by Rocket made with paper box 3 Celebrate April's Earth Day Sun Catcher by Using the sound trigger and servor motor, 3rd grade Colette Trocha from Five Oaks Academy, South Carolina is able to kick it ... #hackhalloween at Warmer Sun Fun House by We have just recently recieved our littleBits... just in time to play with some Halloween pranking.2Question: In the process of selling my home, the buyers requested a home inspection. My problems started when the mold inspector reported elevated spores were four to five times the amount found outside. After paying a contractor to clean and treat for molds, the follow-up test showed the levels were even higher. The buyer refused to complete the deal. What made the mold grow so fast, and did we get ripped off by the contractor? Answer: With a little investigation, I was able to gain some additional information about the sale of your home.

It seems that soon after the initial inspection, the home was left vacant with the utilities off. The resulting enclosed dark and damp environment created an almost perfect situation for mold spores to grow. In the summer, a closed house with the air-conditioning turned off will have higher humidity levels than an air-conditioned home. A vacant house also receives little or no sunlight through closed shades and no air movement with the fan off and the doors locked. If you had simply left the air conditioning running, it would have cooled the home and removed moisture from the air and circulated and filtered the air. Molds thrive when the humidity levels exceed 70 percent. Because humidity levels vary from day to day, the thermostat should have been left at or below 74 degrees, and the fan should have been set to "On." Normally, mold cleaning and remediation processes disturb the spores, which become airborne and can settle on unclean or untreated surfaces, where they continue to thrive in the humid, warm, dark conditions.

In my opinion, the remediation contractor failed you in that he did not warn you of the potential for recontamination. The Environmental Protection Agency suggests that self-cleaning should be considered if the area to be treated is less than 10 square feet. A guide to treatment and cleaning is available at http://www.epa.gov/mold/index.html. You can also learn more about mold remediation contractors and remedies for contaminated buildings. An article by Dr. Ronald E. Gots that appeared in The Laker magazine underscores the myth surrounding phobias about molds and mold contamination. Basically, the article states that there are no scientific studies that show molds are unhealthy at typical indoor levels. Reactions to molds that have been documented are: allergic responses, minor irritant effects and infections in individuals with impaired immune systems. Molds present at typical indoor levels have never been scientifically shown to cause any other illness. Even when mold spores were at elevated levels, there were no similar elevated reports of illnesses.

Examples from the article show certain occupations that are exposed to extremely high concentrations of mold spores. Sawmills: 1.5 million CFU/m3 (colony-forming units per cubic meter of air). Honeybee overwintering facilities: 2,200 to 13,931 CFU/m3 Spawning sheds of mushroom farms: 100,000 CFU/m3 Municipal waste-composting facility: 8.2 million CFU/m3it's 10 times greater (1.2 billion CFU/m3) on farms where adverse health effects are reported. In these highly exposed populations, however, there are no reports of brain damage or of many of the other fungal diseases now common in current indoor mold attributions. What I gathered from the article is that some people -- those with asthma, hay fever or suppressed immune systems -- can be affected by low levels of mold spores, while the majority are not aware of the spores in the very air they breathe, even when there are elevated levels. When mold spores are discovered at elevated indoor levels, you need to contact your doctor first to determine if the mold species will affect you or your family.