I was thinking about something that would let me know if my garage door is open. I have a detached garage and forget to close the door now and then. Something that could run a couple check, light level in the garage, contact switch to see if garage door seems to be down, maybe take a snap shot if the door isn't down and email/text it to me.. Looks like you could a a pressure sensor to see if the car is in the garage, or maybe proximity sensor... Then it could attempt to close the garage door, and send results if it fails... ? A few idea's, but something I would like to have. BTW there was a cat feeder at the tcmaker page done with the pi, http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/2013/03/raspberry-pi-powered-cat-feeder/ ==>brian. On 04/24/2013 04:03 PM, Ubu Sumner wrote: > Would you care to share your ideas for RPi projects? > > An idea I had was a garden weather station with responsive irrigation > control. > > Seems as if the market's already there. Here's a very real list of > gadgets for the garden written with a bit of tongue in cheek (everything > from drones to scare away raccoons to e-pollinators to replace bees): > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/technology/personaltech/calling-on-gadgetry-to-keep-the-garden-growing.html > > (I am now wondering what automation would do to my interest in the > gardening process!) > > And in an area I have even less experience, I've imagined a RPi > controlled popcorn popper to custom roast coffee beans, heat sensor > based and programmable. > > What's your nutty, or not so nutty project? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list