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Show HN: Text Message turns on blender
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Of course, doing it by sms the way this guy did means you can send it more complex commands.
That looks very complicated compared to what it needed to be. Can't find the link now, but there was a guy on hackaday or somesuch who connected the vibration alert to his car to start/unlock (don't remember which) it. So, get an old, cheap phone, take out vibration motor, connect to blender on/off toggle, then simply ring the phone and the blender starts. Its free too, because the call never has to go through. Of co…
This is actually much simpler than it seems. It's just a microcontroller hooked up to the switch (just two wires). The version shown in the video costed much more than it needed to only because we didn't know what we were doing at the time. The whole package can be done wirelessly for ~$35. The benefit of this method is the expandability factor. It can be hooked up to almost anything.
The text message backbone is just a postfix mail server running incron which starts a bash script to parse the message.
That looks very complicated compared to what it needed to be. Can't find the link now, but there was a guy on hackaday or somesuch who connected the vibration alert to his car to start/unlock (don't remember which) it. So, get an old, cheap phone, take out vibration motor, connect to blender on/off toggle, then simply ring the phone and the blender starts. Its free too, because the call never has to go through. Of co…
That's pretty sick. This is actually much simpler than it seems. It's just a microcontroller hooked up to the switch (just two wires). The version shown in the video costed much more than it needed to only because we didn't know what we were doing at the time. The whole package can be done wirelessly for ~$35. The benefit of this method is the expandability factor. It can be hooked up to almost anything. The text mes…