[dundee] Network controlled kettle?

[christopher wyllie]

Hehehe, thanks for all the suggestions. It's kinda just a thing which came
around after a conversation with ym flatmate on the bus. We decided it would
be cool to have an "ether-kettle". No real reason other than I want to see
if I can do it :P

Thanks for the thoughts, they've been useful!

2009/4/3 <lug at seany.us>

> Is this to avoid having to make 2 trips to the kitchen?
>
> My solution was an on-demand hot water dispenser!
>
> http://www.quickcup.co.uk/
>
> Regards,
> Sean McRobbie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "christopher wyllie" <cgwyllie at googlemail.com>
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, 2 April, 2009 04:27:17 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
> Portugal
> Subject: [dundee] Network controlled kettle?
>
>
> 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
>
> Anyways, thanks and salutations,
> Chris
>
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