Posts Tagged ‘remote control’



Twitter Hack – Home Automation Using Twitter Status Updates!

July 20th, 2009

Here’s an incredibly fun way to devise up home automation using Twitter Status updates as commands for remote-control of your home appliances.  This is a really cool project (as any other Twitter hacks) as it makes use of your actual @reply messages to control your home.

With http://twitter.com/MattsOffice you can send a command by placing a keyword in a @reply message. Valid keywords are “light”, “bright”, “dark”, “temp”, “hot”, “cold”, “lcd”, and “view”. For example, to retrieve the temperature of my office I just need to update my Twitter status with a simple question like “@MattsOffice What is the temperature?”

via diy blog

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Twitter Hack – How to Monitor your Plants with Botanicalls!

April 7th, 2009

Botanicalls is a new ethernet-device kit you can buy to monitor your garden plants via internet or Twitter.

You can see an example of it working on Twitter here.  You will find interesting messages such as “URGENT water me.” and “Thank you for watering me”.

I can see how this Botanicalls device and Twitter can both benefit remote control of all your garden plants and maybe there will be similar devices for lawns.

Twitter, sorta medium between e-mail and IM, serves as the perfect communication medium for monitoring stuff including the garden, your home applicances, and probably more to come.

This $99 Twitter gadget might be just what you need to monitor your plants while you are traveling so you can tell your spouse or your kids to “WATER THE DAMN PLANTS!”.

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To date, Hartman and Faludi have sold nearly 100 of the Botanicalls kits for $99 each with the device needing to be assembled from basic parts which Faludi said can be challenging but worthwhile in the end.

“Actually receiving a message from a plant is just very engaging, and I think kind of unexpected. There’s a magic to it that people really enjoy,” said Faludi.

via eco blog

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