Recently I've read a few posts about other peoples working environments, office setups, man caves or work benches. I've also had a couple of people ask about mine, since I tweeted about the redecoration and overhaul of my old "spare room" as it transformed in to "Man Cave 2.0". I had intended to write it up when it was finished anyway, although, even now, 9 months later, it is still not finished, I am begining to realise that it will never actually be finished but will evolve and morph over time. So, this is a look at the overall design and some of the finer detail in to my Man Cave 2.0 as it stands in August 2014
I've been working on a few Arduino projects recently that will hopefully result in varying levels of home automation. The effect so far has been to stick a box here, plug this in there, and dangle a wire from over there, with a general haphazard (with emphasis on the 'hazard' bit in some places!) outcome. If this is to work with any degree of success, it needs some more permanent infrastructure. It needs power. It needs internet connectivity. It needs to be centralised. It needs easy access to things I want to monitor and/or control. It needs to be tidy and out of the way, but easily accessible. There's a shelf in my cloak room that meets most of those criteria, so this weekend I started getting it prepared;
