I was looking at the Arduino website this morning and can see a new and very interesting kit they have put together based on the Arduino MKR1010 WiFi:
Arduino Oplà IoT Kit - Discover Now
[Photo Source: Arduino Oplà IoT Kit]
Now for someone like me who has an old dial thermostat and yearns for all the benefits of a smart thermostat but without any privacy issues the appeal of this is obvious....currently not available on Farnell thought 
. The thermostat is just my top project but the Arduino webpage also lists other ideas such as:
- Remote controlled lights
- Personal weather station
- Smart garden
- Thermostat control
- Home security alarm
- Solar system tracker
- Inventory control
- 'Thinking of you' a P2P Opla messaging system
[Photo Source: Arduino Oplà IoT Kit ]
These are all great ideas and the sort of thing we often see variants of on Project14 (and which we all enjoy reading about). From my own point the project often comes to a halt at the finishing off stage, it never looks sleek enough to mount in the house and gets relegated to a storage crate. However this Arduino kit provides all that is needed for many IoT projects in one neat package:
- Round OLED display
- 5x capacitive touch buttons
- Built in sensors for humidity, temperature, pressure and light
- 2x 24v relays
- SD card holder
- IMU
- 5x LEDs
- Grove connections
- and more !
Perhaps this could be the basis of an upcoming Challenge or Roadtest?
