<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I look forward to 'overflowing' your kettle soon!<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 2/4/09, Dan Bolser <i><dan.bolser@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Dan Bolser <dan.bolser@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Network controlled kettle?<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Thursday, 2 April, 2009, 6:45 AM<br><br><pre>2009/4/2 christopher wyllie <cgwyllie@googlemail.com>:<br>> Hello everyone,<br>><br>> This will perhaps seem like a strange request but that may just be a<br>result<br>> of it being 20 past 4 in the morning. Anyway, does anyone have any ideas<br>of<br>> how I could get my hands on some hardware to create an ethernet controlled<br>> kettle?<br>><br>> I'm ideally looking for
some sort of embedded I/O device that I can<br>plug<br>> with ethernet into a router and then fire requests at over the network to<br>> turn the kettle on and off. Can anyone suggest anything which would have<br>> these capabilities? Embedded Linux would be cool but I was also looking at<br>> picaxe micro controllers but they don't seem to have an ethernet<br>connectable<br>> board (although if I bought all the bits, I could make my own damn<br>> intelligent kettle, they have all the sensors and stuff like that :P).<br>><br>> It would be a bonus if the components are quite cheap also because that<br>may<br>> make the difference between this being a possible dream and an "is it<br>> technically feasible" kind of dream :P<br><br>Sounds awesome!<br><br>If you do it, can you make sure that the UI/API can somehow integrate<br>into a generic web framework? When thinking about an 'intelligent<br>household' its too much to ask for
one seamless centralized integrated<br>'household system' ("iNumber 23"), but rather we need the<br>individual<br>components to be plugable into an overall household control system.<br><br>Have you thought about ethernet over the local electricity network?<br>Would that work in a block of flats?<br><br><br>Good luck!<br><br>> Anyways, thanks and salutations,<br>> Chris<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>> Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>