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Fun things to automate?
jcerecke
Junior Member
Just won this auction for $1. Woo! First piece of personal kit. Now need some suggestions as to what to do with it. I don't have anything I can really think of that I want to automate (that would be a fun/cool project). I was thinking of sticking it in my car, but it's too old for OBD and I don't want to go sticking heaps of screens in it and other crap. Also boot times would annoy me I think.
What fun things have people automated?
I was thinking of automating my espresso maker and toaster, so I can set it up the night before and have breakfast almost ready for me by the time I wake up. Incorporating a smoke alarm kill switch just in case something goes horribly wrong haha.
What fun things have people automated?
I was thinking of automating my espresso maker and toaster, so I can set it up the night before and have breakfast almost ready for me by the time I wake up. Incorporating a smoke alarm kill switch just in case something goes horribly wrong haha.
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http://www.dfd.com/coffee.html
http://qik.com/video/3623414
Or learn Arduino.. Super cheap and you can make lots of things serial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8
Inspired by the Craig Turner "Cat Hater" video above, here is a shameless plug for my latest video. I don't have the pizzazz that he has and I tend to mumble a bit, but oh well. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7OFSHXgVoQ
Roger McLean
[With my work hat "off"]
Also, AMX + Siri + espresso machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKk5ju3jVU
Our office machine is on the way out (pump etc is fine, control board is rather temperamental) so it's currently on a PC2 and there's a spare panel next to it with a a single button labelled "Oh god, make it stop".
Well... not so much that. Bear in mind I like squirrels well enough. (In fact we have quite a few albino squirrels in our yard. they're all white fur with pink eyes and everything..) But, it will involve optical sensors and a couple actualted owl dummies or something.
They're especially tasty in barbecue sauce.
Perhaps squirrels and birds have different resonances in the RF spectrum. Maybe you could find a frequency that would warm up the squirrels but leave the birds alone???
An FCC guy once told me that 96.1 MHz is the easiest absorbed frequency in the FM band to humans.