How to Make Sol-a-day to Help Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder #AdafruitIO #ioTuesday
Thanks so much to Mariam for sending us this tip! Miriam writes:
Arising from the idea of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD),
Sol-a-day targets the lack of sun exposure, which affects general happiness and mood.
Students and office workers who study or work all day rarely get outside. Staying inside increases depression and lack of energy. Therefore, students and office workers make up the target audience for this product.
As opposed to other existing devices, Sol-a-day reminds the user to go
outside.
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: We are excited to add another product to our growing Adafruit Bluefruit line, this time it’s the Bluefruit EZ-Link: the best Bluetooth Serial Link device ever made. Like you, we have purchased all sorts of Bluetooth serial link modules, with high expectations – we just wanted something that worked! But nothing ever did exactly what we wanted: there was always some configuration modes to wade through, and using one of those other modules to reprogram an Arduino is impossible. (read more)
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Here at Adafruit, we sell all of these amazing components, but we couldn’t find a good way to interact with them over the internet. There are certainly a lot of great services out there for datalogging, or communicating with your microcontroller over the web, but these services are either too complicated to get started, or they aren’t particularly fun to use. So, we decided to experiment with our own system, and that is how Adafruit IO got started.