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When you move you generally load up everything you own into one truck. If your entire life is ever going to get ripped off, this is probably when it's going to happen. To guard against the threat [Tim Flint] built his own alarm for a moving truck. If someone opens the door on the truck it'll alert him via text message. Hopefully he's got an annoying notification sound that will wake him up in time … [Read more...]
We haven't really covered many hacks having to do with Apple's newest iPhone feature Siri. We'd bet you've already heard a bunch about the voice-activated AI assistant and here's your chance to give it the keys to your house. This project uses Siri to actuate the deadbolt on an entry door in a roundabout sort of way. This is really just a Siri frontend for an SMS entry system seen in several … [Read more...]
[Billy's] work got new keys which he didn't want to carry around with him. Instead he built this system to unlock the door via text message. It is based around a Spinneret Web Server which drives a servo motor. He's rigged up a pipe hanger to add some leverage to the lock's knob. We're surprised that the servo has enough power to do the job here but the video after the break shows there's really … [Read more...]
An Arduino with an Ethernet shield, nothing new right? Not quite, [Chris] is showing us how to use Twilio to control an Arduino via a touch tone telephone. We saw Twilio used before in a cellphone video game but this time around an audio menu system comes into play. You can make your own menus whose options will be read by the WOPR (see the demo after the break) when you call the Twilio number. … [Read more...]
That title's not really fair to [Evan], but he did write a cellphone tetris game that causes your handset to automatically telephone him if you win. He's using two applications that we're not very familiar with, Twilio and Tornado. The former handles control input from the cellphone via their simple API. The latter is a web server and web framework that runs the actual game. If you're … [Read more...]
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