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I played with this at CES. The "mother" bot is basically just a router. The little things only sense motion, and when I asked the lady said they had no plans to
by devindotcom 13y ago
I played with this at CES. The "mother" bot is basically just a router. The little things only sense motion, and when I asked the lady said they had no plans to add any other types of sensitivity - temperature, moisture, light, current, etc. Compared with the other 'internet of things' kits out there battling for visibility, this one doesn't seem original or more useful, only visually striking. The tags are also pretty big for what they do. A useful thing for $50 maybe to buy once, but really doesn't seem like a worthwhile 'ecosystem' to buy into in any big way.
Also, I was unhappy to learn upon close inspection that the face is a sticker.
- jfoutz 13y agoweird. the webpage says the motion sensors also sense temperature.
- devindotcom 13y agoReally? I asked specifically about temperature and the lady said nope. Maybe she wasn't aware. Well at any rate I take that bit back. But I still think these things are multiplying and buying into this one would be extremely premature.
- giarc 13y agoI'm sure they debated adding light sensors, but perhaps they figure that adopters of this may have also adopted wifi connected lights which could be built into the software.
- krisoft 13y agoThat makes sense. The bias which affects the measurements of MEMS based gyroscopes and accelerometers, has a temperature dependent component. Because of this the two sensor is commonly packaged together with temperature sensing elements. Since it's already there on the IMU chip, why not use it?
- manmal 13y agoThere's also a temperature display in the video on the landing page.
- jlgaddis 13y ago> Motion Cookies also contain a thermometer. --https://sen.se/store/cookie/ https://sen.se/store/cookie/
- Ecio78 13y agoYou can see a temperature sensor in the linked 90sec video.