How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
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Re: How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
#2This is hilarious! But very practical. Buttons are a simple user interface to say one thing. And the phone call on the other side of the system is great.
Google's Paper Signals project allow for a more complex input: voice commands. https://papersignals.withgoogle.com/
I can see demand for tons of customized versions of both of these projects. The business model is broken though. Customized hardware or software is expensive. If you could build a cookie-cutter style app creator using emoji-style software blocks (for those with zero programming ability) and stick with off-the-shelf hardware from other creators (Amazon) or even Arduino kits, you could build a business model to support semi-custom products with a mix of hardware and software for many many uses.
Re: How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
#3This is hilarious! But very practical. Buttons are a simple user interface to say one thing. And the phone call on the other side of the system is great. Google's Paper Signals project allow for a more complex input: voice commands. https://papersignals.withgoogle.com/ I can see demand for tons of customized versions of both of these projects. The business model is broken though. Customized hardware or software is ex…
Didn't know about Papersignals. Looks awesome (also, for kids). Have you built anything with it yet? What's the developer experience like?
Re: How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
#4> brew install python3
Homebrew now installs Python 3 when you run "brew install python". I'm not sure if I agree with their choice, but it makes your guide a bit simpler.
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#5I remember years ago someone on here talking about how companies needed to pony up for 8 devs a year if they wanted 24/7 support - the phrase was "only two people on the planet get to wake me at 2 am without paying".
this is now literally true.
I still rely on on Toddler Lungs 1.0 :-)
Re: How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
#6> brew install python3 Homebrew now installs Python 3 when you run "brew install python". I'm not sure if I agree with their choice, but it makes your guide a bit simpler.
> I'm not sure if I agree with their choice
Ha! Keep holding out.
Great tip. Thank you. We'll update the post.
Re: How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
#7I remember years ago someone on here talking about how companies needed to pony up for 8 devs a year if they wanted 24/7 support - the phrase was "only two people on the planet get to wake me at 2 am without paying". this is now literally true. I still rely on on Toddler Lungs 1.0 :-)
> I still rely on on Toddler Lungs 1.0 :-)
As the proud owner of a three year old, I feel you.
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#8Love it, great use of technology and the poop emoji! I probably just forgot but I don't remember our kids getting up in the middle of the night during potty training. Of course we didn't even try until they were 3, you know what they say: potty training a 3 yr old takes a couple days, potty training a 2 yr old takes about a year.
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#9this is funny and a good use of off the shelf apis but it strikes me as a rube Goldberg solution: he's going through AWS to twilio to his cell provider. they're in the same building. he could've hooked up any number of things involving things like RF, Arduino, or whatever. I mean yes you don't get to play with twilio and AWS iot but those are just apis...
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#10Huh, the AWS IOT Button doesn't ship to Canada. And it isn't available on Amazon.ca.
Not to be a party pooper... but, huh? Why not?