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possible home automation projects: - ultra cheap smart wifi motion sensor (using the camera) or vibration sensor (i.e. stick it to a window and u can use the a
by kyriakos 11y ago
possible home automation projects:
- ultra cheap smart wifi motion sensor (using the camera) or vibration sensor (i.e. stick it to a window and u can use the accelerometer to detect break ins).
- car GPS tracker (its actually smaller than dedicated ones)
- soylentcola 11y agoI usually keep older phones that get replaced after 2-3 years so they can be used for similar projects. The most basic are just glorified remotes for all of the various controllable things in my house. Get a wall mount/charger and they make good switches for Hue lights, controllers for casting audio to various rooms, and stuff like that. In the past I'd see low end devices for $50 or less but $10 is honestly hard to believe. Even if all you use it for is a handful of desktop widgets that turn things on/off that's already cheaper than some regular remotes and switches, much less ones that give you information and can be customized to look however I want or perform different tasks.
- dharma1 11y agoyeah $10 is kind of crazy, probably subsidised prize. I keep my older phones too, have been using old android devices as Airplay receivers for music, hooked up to speakers in different rooms. Would be nice to use them for voice control too, I am hoping Amazon will release some Alexa apps/APIs that are not tied to specific hardware