An article recently posted on Medium explained how easy it was to hack an Amazon Dash Button to track Baby Data. Pretty neat idea… but the example given required a laptop to constantly be running a python network sniffer. If the laptop
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For a personal project I’m working on, I need to monitor all the devices currently on my home network. Getting PHP to poll the network for devices is hard… I believe there is a way to poll devices in perl, but I was looking for something easier. The quickest solution I was able to come up with is to screenscrap my router’s “Device List” page. My router is a Linksys E2000 (For all the nerds out there, its a Broadcom BCM4716 chip rev 1 pkg 9, overclocked to a blazin’ 356MHz). It’s currently running Tomato Version 1.28.
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I recently backed a KickStarter project for a device called Fargo. In a nutshell, Fargo is nothing more than 8 relays which are controlled by a simple webserver. While Fargo has a nice web accessible backend, I wanted something with
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Wake-Up Lights are basically alarm clocks that use a light to wake you up, instead of the typical deafening speaker and annoying tone. I like this idea. Give your brain “natural” clues to trick it into thinking it’s time to wake up.
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