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This is just a little idea I had on the bus. Outside my apartment, I have a bucket for umbrellas. A program checks the local weather on weather.com from time to time. If there's any chance of rain, it switches on the lights installed in the bucket.
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My hall light turns on for 15 minutes if it's past 10pm and I unlock my door with an octopus card or iPhone. Its just a 12v relay (rated at 240V/30A), and some cat-5 to the thin client PC. All happens to fit perfectly inside the light
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Octopus cards in Hong Kong can be used to purchase almost anything, such as groceries, McDonalds, and public transport. Since everyone has one, a lot of apartments are using them for access control. One of my first projects after moving back to Hong Kong was installing an electronic lock on
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I've finished most of the work I'm going to do on my shell.fm ruby server. Its written on sinatra + jquery + jquery-ui (so, a lot of ajax calls). It also requires my custom shell.fm fork if you want the volume control to work. You can
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I received my Pertelian X2040, and had a bit of trouble getting it work on my 64bit Ubuntu machine. The characters were getting all mixed up. I gave up on my 64bit machine and decided to focus my efforts on the T20 running tinycore. To get lcd4linux running on tinycore
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I've finished the software research stage of my Compaq Evo T20 experiments. I have settled on the Tinycore 2.7 distribution. So I now have a 300MHz thin client that: * can connect to a wired or wireless network. * can play audio through its onboard sound device. * has the
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Compaq Evo T20s are fun. I have a few that I'm using for various projects. I plan to set one up as a RFID controlled alarm/door lock system. Its running Damn Small Linux using ruby, rubygems and sinatra packages that I compiled myself. Karl Mowatt-Wilson's