I work with friends very close to the bleeding edge in architecture and building technology.
One of the things we want to do is control equipement. This will entail monitering power consumption and turning on and off a switch. This should likely run over a USB and Wifi i/f (both) With IPV6 we have enough addresses for every molecual near this part of the milky way. But the thing is this will be electrical so we can send a signal over the wires too. The electronics needs to be dirt cheap and the system IMHO should be OSS. I know this is a linux group but many of us use OpenBSD as well. But anything should be cross platform. Does anyone know if something like this is in motion? If not would anyone want to put some motion into someting like this? I believe a chip which can do this can be manufactured for under $1.00 In about 1997 I hired a good friend by the name of Tom Rosack who is a Polish EE and we built a TDR. (Time Division Reflectometer) and we shot Telus' lines... and found the issues. The parts cost less than $20 dollars. We used an AAA batery and a dual channel osciloscope. The engineering cost a lot more than $20 dollars. But we were successful. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
