A few months ago (I know, I’m really slow at blogging!) I gave a presentation at DDD EastAnglia on how to make your own Internet of Things Thing. Here are my slides from the talk:

http://www.slideshare.net/TinamousSteve/a-brief-introduction-to-making-your-own-internet-of-things-thing

The Gadgeteer code can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/Tinamous/GardenSprinkler

The NeoPixel rings I used in the SteamPunk goggles are available from AdaFruit at http://www.adafruit.com/product/1463 and the Arduino code is a slight modification of the example code that AdaFruit make available for the NeoPixels on GitHub