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Hardware prims

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Some various links to sites highlighting some of the thinking and experimenting being done around 'adaptable' hardware. Some of it 'open-source-hardware'. Anything used as a basis to build something else I like to refer to as a "prim" - borrowing from the secondlife concept of "primitives" - small basic building blocks ...

More on PowerSwitch kludging - an Australian lead

Monday, July 30th, 2007

After Dave Faxon's post about what he'd been up to with remote controlled power switches, I got an email from Ian from my own hometown. Geez, never know who's watching! Ian writes: Hi David, Jaycar Electronics have an RF remote switch similar to the Super Switch in their new catalogue. Also available are small ...