Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Close Your Drapes (And More!) With the Casio e125
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "SOFTWARE" @ 03:00 AM
"This was my first major X10 project. As I was working away at the time, I needed something to look after the house and give it a 'lived in' feel. I originally had the usual lamps plugged into timer switches but these were only partly effective as the times for dusk constantly move and I found myself having to re-set the times. I could have used dawn/dusk timers but these just didn't have the flexibility of going off at random or specific times. Anyway, I wanted to get into X10 and here was an ideal opportunity..."
This is a project that definitely falls into the W?BIC category. Combine X10 with a Pocket PC, add a dash of coding mojo, sprinkle generously with some serious geek motivation, and you've got yourself an extremely stable, powerful control system for your house. This guy wrote the code, designed the interface, and even gave it voice capability. Pretty impressive, but I have to ask - where's the robotic capability? This system is just begging for some kind of tie-in with a modified attack Aibo... :mrgreen:
This is a project that definitely falls into the W?BIC category. Combine X10 with a Pocket PC, add a dash of coding mojo, sprinkle generously with some serious geek motivation, and you've got yourself an extremely stable, powerful control system for your house. This guy wrote the code, designed the interface, and even gave it voice capability. Pretty impressive, but I have to ask - where's the robotic capability? This system is just begging for some kind of tie-in with a modified attack Aibo... :mrgreen:
