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Aug 19, 2006 17:07
How to best explain the awesomeness that is today (
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muerte
August 20 2006, 01:55:43 UTC
Wait how would you hook your garage door up to a computer. Just some X11 stuff and then a command from your cell to open it? That's pure genius.
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brad
August 20 2006, 02:35:33 UTC
Parallel port + libparapin + relay.
There are a bunch of USB kits for doing misc stuff too, but I haven't seen a moderately cheap one.
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muerte
August 20 2006, 02:54:50 UTC
What's the distance limitation on parallel?
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brad
August 20 2006, 02:58:32 UTC
I dunno. But I'd just run bell wire (long) to the bread board + relay which would be connected to the (relatively short) parallel cable to the computer.
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scosol
August 21 2006, 12:19:28 UTC
> Then I can open the garage from my phone when I'm biking home.
There's... just something wrong with that.
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