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** I got a nice reed-magnet contact switch from expolinkalarms.co.uk on ebay for £1.65 | ** I got a nice reed-magnet contact switch from expolinkalarms.co.uk on ebay for £1.65 | ||
** I taped it next to the door to install next weds [[User:Msemtd|Michael Erskine]] 13:21, 10 February 2011 (GMT) | ** I taped it next to the door to install next weds [[User:Msemtd|Michael Erskine]] 13:21, 10 February 2011 (GMT) | ||
** I brought in some Tyco 6-core alarm cable - there's lots of this in my free-issue cable store | ** I brought in some Tyco 6-core alarm cable - there's lots of this in my free-issue cable store. | ||
* temperature | * temperature | ||
* light level | * light level | ||
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* fingerprint readers! I have left two in the store room | * fingerprint readers! I have left two in the store room | ||
* webcams - naturally! | * webcams - naturally! | ||
I plan to map out the cool stuff in a nice model using something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/ | |||
== PC I/O == | == PC I/O == | ||
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== Crazy Cool Mobile Phone Hack == | == Crazy Cool Mobile Phone Hack == | ||
Every wanted to phone a server and tell it to do something? Or perhaps have the server phone or text you when something happens! | |||
Inspired by some crazy phone hacks on Instructables, I'd like to involve some old mobile phones to act as inputs/outputs. I've started a page on my vebug.com webpage at [http://vebug.com/node/5] | Inspired by some crazy phone hacks on Instructables, I'd like to involve some old mobile phones to act as inputs/outputs. I've started a page on my vebug.com webpage at [http://vebug.com/node/5] | ||
Revision as of 16:33, 16 February 2011
Our always-on little server will be used to collect data from the HackSpace and provide a number of interfaces for the presentation of that data. This will be for "the things we want to know about" and various interesting statistics.
- door contacts
- We'll want to do the main HackSpace door first
- I got a nice reed-magnet contact switch from expolinkalarms.co.uk on ebay for £1.65
- I taped it next to the door to install next weds Michael Erskine 13:21, 10 February 2011 (GMT)
- I brought in some Tyco 6-core alarm cable - there's lots of this in my free-issue cable store.
- temperature
- light level
- PIR
- dance-mat floor pressure switch (!)
- I have one in the store room
- it might be useful to use it on the floor just inside the store room
- RFID reader fun
- fingerprint readers! I have left two in the store room
- webcams - naturally!
I plan to map out the cool stuff in a nice model using something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/
PC I/O
- serial and parallel ports available
- USB ports available
- we could arduino it if we want
PC storage and user interfaces
- RRD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRDtool
- syslog?
- IRC bot would be entirely appropriate
- web interface of course!
- hook into the website
- daily summary as RSS feed
- everybody loves graphs!
Michael Erskine 13:21, 10 February 2011 (GMT)
Crazy Cool Mobile Phone Hack
Every wanted to phone a server and tell it to do something? Or perhaps have the server phone or text you when something happens!
Inspired by some crazy phone hacks on Instructables, I'd like to involve some old mobile phones to act as inputs/outputs. I've started a page on my vebug.com webpage at [1] and I'll transcribe it here.
Michael Erskine 09:33, 15 February 2011 (GMT)