Naked Bits » automation http://www.nakedbits.nl Naked Bits helps your company to play and innovate with inspirational technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Bridging the real world to the internet http://www.nakedbits.nl/2009/01/bringing-the-real-world-to-the-internet/ http://www.nakedbits.nl/2009/01/bringing-the-real-world-to-the-internet/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:26:49 +0000 dirk http://www.nakedbits.nl/?p=59 A friend on Twitter drew my attention to a very promising project: ioBridge. This simple set of hardware modules makes it possible to control physical equipment from the computer. The big plus of ioBridge are its simplicity (you get some javascript widgets that make controlling the equipment really easy) and the price (for $100.- you can get started).

The dream is to have control over the real world from a website: Controlling home appliances, change a website’s appearance depending on the temperature or the ambient light (for example show different products in hot weather than in cold weather), switching things on and off from anywhere…

See here how Stephen Myers used ioBridge to be able to give treats to his dog even when not at home using his iphone as a remote!

While this is not new, it wasn’t until ioBridge that less technical people are able to create such applications. You don’t have to program complicated serial interfaces to control an on/off switch anymore. So it gives great room for experimenting with new ideas. Who’s got a great ULURU-like idea? We’ll build it and demonstrate it for you!

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