Okay, THAT is an awesome hack. Taking a simple, straightforward system and, with a little bit of hardware geekery, conscripting it into service as a botanical monitering/reminder service. I am much impressed.
I'd like to see most everything that you own be able to do this. Then, there'd be an aggregator of your stuff that you can get a 10,000 level overview of. How old is most of my stuff? How fashionable is most of my stuff? How much of my stuff do I really use? How much is my stuff worth? Which of my stuff have I been neglecting? That way, we can learn to live with less stuff. (or if that's not your goal, live with stuff that other people envy)
It's something to let your xbox360 blog about you. Its entries are like:
"Cormyre seemed really excited to play yesterday. Our current gamerscore is 32,936 . That is a boost of 60 points over last time! He rocked out to Burnout Paradise, Devil May Cry 4, LEGO Star Wars II, Aegis Wing, Tomb Raider: Anniv. gaining 1 achievement, and I think there was some random Live Marketplace browsing, but I wasn't paying attention."
"Cormyre must have heard my calling... I was practically startled when his greasy finger pounded my power button. I mean come on... be a little gentle... I am fragile. Just some helpful advice for someone with a 32,876 gamerscore. That is a profit of 650 points over last time! He rallied Guitar Hero III, Tomb Raider: Anniv. adding an amazing 20 achievements, and then he had to stop because we both couldn't take it anymore... we were spent."
8 comments
[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 31.1 ms ] threadIf I had plants, I'd be all over this.
EDIT: This reminded me of: http://www.360voice.com/
It's something to let your xbox360 blog about you. Its entries are like:
"Cormyre seemed really excited to play yesterday. Our current gamerscore is 32,936 . That is a boost of 60 points over last time! He rocked out to Burnout Paradise, Devil May Cry 4, LEGO Star Wars II, Aegis Wing, Tomb Raider: Anniv. gaining 1 achievement, and I think there was some random Live Marketplace browsing, but I wasn't paying attention."
"Cormyre must have heard my calling... I was practically startled when his greasy finger pounded my power button. I mean come on... be a little gentle... I am fragile. Just some helpful advice for someone with a 32,876 gamerscore. That is a profit of 650 points over last time! He rallied Guitar Hero III, Tomb Raider: Anniv. adding an amazing 20 achievements, and then he had to stop because we both couldn't take it anymore... we were spent."
1. Arduino (which is a cheap, open source design, microcontroller board)
2. XPort (a system-on-a-chip ethernet connector which contains a web server and a serial interface inside an ethernet socket).