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July 9, 2014 at 7:46 pm
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Windell Oskay
Keymaster
It’s a fine idea if you have an Arduino variant that is capable of a low-power sleep mode. The most common varieties do not, because they have additional (relatively power hungry) circuitry that runs all the time. Something like an Arduino Pro or Diavolino can shut down much further, though.