{"id":2676,"date":"2014-02-03T23:34:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2014-02-03T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:34:40","slug":"baby-its-cold-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2014\/02\/03\/baby-its-cold-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby It&#8217;s Cold Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 8px 8px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.terrorware.com\/coldinside\/widget.html\" height=\"240\" width=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It feels as if I&#8217;ve lived in a lifetime of cold houses. As a child, the thermostat was a battleground between my parents (a battle that, if the warmth of my parents&#8217; house on my last visit was any indicator, has been won by my mother).\u00a0 While I&#8217;m sure there was some genuine concern for thrift, it feels keeping the temperature low was a way of saying that we weren&#8217;t the kind of family that was so privileged as to throw away money for excessive comfort.<\/p>\n<p>My first house in Bloomington was freezing.\u00a0 Despite covering all the windows in plastic, it never felt warm, the pipes froze, and when we finally crawled under the floorboards into the muddy crawlspace, we found that most of the ductwork was disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>During the polar vortex, the temperature in my Chicago apartment dipped below 50 degrees.\u00a0 It still felt warm compared with the outside, but it wasn&#8217;t exactly pleasant.\u00a0 I was pissed at my landlord for neglecting the cranky radiators in the apartment, but also felt like a whiner, knowing that others in the city were probably in a worse situation.\u00a0 In general, it felt like one more thing that was bigger than me.<\/p>\n<p>My best stab at dealing with the crazy weather, and the discomfort, was to wire up an Arduino to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/9418\">temperature sensor<\/a> and push the temperature readings to <a href=\"https:\/\/xively.com\/\">Xively<\/a>.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ghing\/8744161\">Arduino code is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_6919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2688\" alt=\"IMG_6919\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_6919-575x431.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_6919-575x431.jpg 575w, http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_6919-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_6919.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made a micro site called <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.terrorware.com\/coldinside\">Baby It&#8217;s Cold Inside<\/a>, to share the readings and link to resources about landlord responsibilities for keeping apartments warm.\u00a0 In the future, I might try to incorporate data about <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AvaXS4x_XvJmdGthMFBSb1BJOUNPTnhaNWN4UDZnZkE&amp;usp=sharing\">no heat 311 requests<\/a> that I FOIAed last year.<\/p>\n<p>This project didn&#8217;t make the apartment any warmer, but it was a way to acknowledge my situation and create something out of that situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels as if I&#8217;ve lived in a lifetime of cold houses. 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