[dundee] Network controlled kettle?

[Dan Bolser]

2009/4/2 christopher wyllie <cgwyllie at googlemail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This will perhaps seem like a strange request but that may just be a result
> of it being 20 past 4 in the morning. Anyway, does anyone have any ideas of
> how I could get my hands on some hardware to create an ethernet controlled
> kettle?
>
> I'm ideally looking for some sort of embedded I/O device that I can plug
> with ethernet into a router and then fire requests at over the network to
> turn the kettle on and off. Can anyone suggest anything which would have
> these capabilities? Embedded Linux would be cool but I was also looking at
> picaxe micro controllers but they don't seem to have an ethernet connectable
> board (although if I bought all the bits, I could make my own damn
> intelligent kettle, they have all the sensors and stuff like that :P).
>
> It would be a bonus if the components are quite cheap also because that may
> make the difference between this being a possible dream and an "is it
> technically feasible" kind of dream :P

Sounds awesome!

If you do it, can you make sure that the UI/API can somehow integrate
into a generic web framework? When thinking about an 'intelligent
household' its too much to ask for one seamless centralized integrated
'household system' ("iNumber 23"), but rather we need the individual
components to be plugable into an overall household control system.

Have you thought about ethernet over the local electricity network?
Would that work in a block of flats?


Good luck!

> Anyways, thanks and salutations,
>  Chris
>
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