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11-23-2012, 03:52 PM | #31 | |
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A thermometer could be used like a thermostat if a room, sure, or it could also be used to give real-time feedback on the inside of your BBQ grill, the water in a pool or hot tub, or anything else we could think of. Just the whole idea of taking a piece of hardware that can return data about itself or what's around it, and then attaching that to the vast number of online services available to developers these days. There are things that have already been doing or would be pretty easy for existing hardware manufacturers to do, but there's SO MUCH data and networking service available online now that haven't been around all that long, so I know there are some interesting things that could be done that aren't being done yet. Just need to put my finger on it. |
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Here's what you need to build. Look at the price tag, and theres normally a 3 month backlog of orders.
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11-23-2012, 04:03 PM | #34 | |
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So, ideally, I'd like to come up with something that isn't directly competing with an existing product. |
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11-23-2012, 04:07 PM | #35 | |
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This reminds me of http://smartthings.com/... I have a developer license on it's way... as these smart devices are being delivered in Dec...
Motion and geo proximity based smart devices are going to be very popular over the next few years. |
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11-23-2012, 04:36 PM | #37 | |
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They're probably going to provide developers an easier way to do things with Arduino, which would be great depending on their royalties. Again, everything they're doing in that video (whether it is indeed Arduino or not) is exactly the same as Arduino works. Starting with that basic board housed in their "hub", soldering on extra parts to handle different tasks, and writing software apps to control it all. I'll have to keep my eye on them. If they provide enough of an improvement over Arduino itself to justify their cost I'll probably use them. Otherwise, I'll just stick with Arduino directly since it's free. |
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11-23-2012, 04:38 PM | #38 |
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That would be a cool security system trigger. Play the right chords to unlock the gate.
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Make a small robot that will patrol your home. Try to rig sensors in line with biological presence. Change in local temp, sound, vibration, etc. Also include a camera that will take stills when possible biological presence is detected, tweet/text you, with the option of turning on a video/audio stream that you can access. While you are doing this market the intermediate stages as a house pet observation device.
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11-23-2012, 04:50 PM | #41 |
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For dieters connect the system to fridge and cupboards door and require X amount of activity using motion detection to trigger the lock and get something to eat.
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A networked chicken coop door actuator. A nice iphone front end, too, please.
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Route tracking on forklifts in a large warehouse. Use the data to create the ideal WH layout, increasing efficiency.
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A group in my senior design class is using this in their project. They are designing a system that turns on the humidifiers and heaters in a yoga studio and then maintains the preset temperature and humidity. They have it set up so that the owner can control it all through an iphone app anywhere he has wifi or 3G. Definitely cool technology.
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