Sunday, June 14, 2015

Scope creep

Scope creep is the phenomenon where new requirements are added to running projects, making it virtually impossible to finish on time and on budget. From a project management perspective, scope creep should be avoided but...

Yesterday I set up my web application developer with a humidor and some cigars. I didn't bring a hygrometer because I know he likes to tinker with electronics. I figured he would want to add wifi and plug into his pimatic app.

One hour and two beers later, an idea was born: why not build a wifi-hygrometer and connect it to the online humidor feature at cigarprofiler.org?


A working protoype 


The sensor placed inside the humidor 



The data going straight to the cigar profiler server


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