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My perspective on Automation
Have you ever worked or studied in a building with automated motion-sensing lights? The kind that turn off after an absurdly short amount of time, forcing you to get up and make wild gestures, like...
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Bluetooth Trigger for Dash-Cam
Last week, I wrote about my experience using an old Droid X as a dash-cam, Russia-style. With Tasker and DailyRoads Voyager, the implementation allowed for completely hands-off operation; recording...
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Saving Battery with Tasker
The Galaxy Nexus is notorious for its mediocre battery life, especially when operating in an area with marginal 4G coverage. Finding that my phone would frequently attempt to maintain a cellular data...
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Space Heater Controlled by Z-Wave Thermostat
A Case Study in Home Automation In lieu of actually writing a more comprehensive post about my foray into home automation, I decided to begin instead with something more simple: a problem, and its...
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Direct DC Power to Smartphone – No Battery
This seems like it should be simple. Phones of all variety – Android, Apple, “smart” and “dumb” use 3.7-3.85V single cell lithium-ion batteries. Just attach a 3.7V DC adapter to the (+) and (-)...
View ArticleeBay Bulk Listing for Free with File Exchange
eBay’s website has become a cesspool of CPU and Memory intensive Web 2.0 sludge, which makes using it to do anything which benefits from parallelization a nightmare. Bulk listings? Pay a third party...
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Home Automation Update
2017. As with all things that change, much remains the same. The past several years have seen an explosion of new products in the “Smart Home” market, yet no clear winner has emerged, resulting in a...
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