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Appliance Whispering
How to talk to your Dishwasher
(and other unruly kitchen electronics)
Why would you bother talking to your dishwasher?
For Fun?!
Profit??
Actually...
Automation
Life Hacking
Performing Menial Tasks
Acquiring Knowledge
Easier Communication
Self-Improvement
Annoying Your Spouse
Saving Your (Plant's) Life
...are all pretty good reasons!
Typically,
you just want your hardware to be
a little bit smarter.
Consider...
Life before the Internet.
(Dramatization)
Consider...
Life after the Internet.
Knowledge
Worldwide Reach
Instant Gratification
...but we're still stuck in front of a screen.
The Internet...Really.
/ˈintərˌnet/
(n.) A series of tubes that connect data storage appliances together in a way the allows us to feed information into our eyeballs and earholes exponentially faster and easier than ever before
But, I wonder...
is a computer only good for
displaying multimedia
through a monitor?
Hardly.
So where does that bring us?
Appliance Whispering
Or more commonly,
just Hardware Hacking.
Varying Skill required for Appliance Whispering
Manufactured
Smart-Appliances
Consumer Smart Accessory "Bridges"
Hardware Prototyping
Platforms
HackTHIS:
Arduino Workshop
Sunday, February 26th
10:00am - 4:00pm
THANKS!
