Dorm room automation

Since almost everybody doesn’t like to wake up (early) in the morning I thought I had to do something to get me out of bed with more ease… A few years a purchased a wake-up light which just wakes you with a lamp that shines brighter and brighter until it is a 100% of brightness over a period of a half a hour. The idea is that you wake up earlier and rested. This worked for me for about a month and after that it waked me but I was very slumbered.

So I had to think of another thing to wake up easier… I came up with the idea of making the motivation of getting out of bed higher. This, I thought for me, can be done by fresh baked baguette and eggs.

Avans Smart Assistant

Aka, A SmartAss:

This last semester I studied the minor “Embedded Systems” on my university, in this minor you learn a lot about most of the thing I count as my hobby; Electronics and programming. The minor takes a half a year and you have to do a certain project that takes about a half a year. The project I and a friend chose was a bit different, but a really cool one; The Avans Smart Assistant!

Webkey hacking

Just a quick post..

I recently got like 15 webkey devices  and here’s how to make them direct them to your own site, make them start a program or your mail or whatever.  But first, what is a webkey? As you can see on the picture these are like some sort of buttons with a USB cable on it.

A webkey is a device which you plug into you USB port and says it is a HID (keyboard) device  which starts the “run” prompt if you push the button (under which is actually a real push-button), then it “types” a website and “pushes” enter and starts the website.

The beginning of my domotica controlled room

Today I finally got the chance to show you one of my latest projects, the automation of my bedroom, a domotica  controlled room. In this post I will guide you trough the process I went through making this possible:

Well how did I managed to do that?