For Father's Day this year I am going to attempt to make my dad an analog temperature guage using an article by Scott Hanselman on the coding4fun website. I am probably going to expand on Scott's idea if time permits and see what else I can hook up to the temperature sensor to make it cooler.

One problem I am going to run into is that my dad does not have a broadband connection so I will have to find a way around that. Another problem is that I don't think my dad has a USB port on his computer so I will have to install one.

I was actually really impressed to find out that the company (Phidgets) that makes the temperaure sensors is from Calgary. So hopefully it gets here by the end of the week. I think further down the road I am going to buy one of the RFID kits and mess around with it.

I will document what I end up making and post it on my blog but in the meantime if anyone has any ideas for a temperature guage hooked up to your computer or software ideas I would be glad to hear them and try to make them a reality.