Re: Mind blowingly impressive.
- Posted by katsmeow in August
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I was wondering again today how to post a code bounty here. But, i guess the way things are, $500 or $1k isn't worth the bother.
... What probably is worthwhile however is writing it down, ... and make sense to a six year old. ...
I wanna plug stuff into the computer, read it, think about it, and then write my decision back to it. Like, if a transponder i carry is outside, the computer can turn off all the lights inside? If the attic is 120 degrees, turn on a vent fan? If there's hail, cover the solar panels? If the rain water cistern is full, stop filling it? Freaking simple i/o done in the 1980's, but seemingly impossible on modern hardware and OE?
I paid someone to set up a raspi to read roof temperatures, but that is all it does. It cannot turn on a fan. It cannot read anything else. And it's a nix board, and as a 6 year old, i don't do nix. The stand-alone module like a raspi i agree with, given it's design with so many i/o pins, run control software on a 5w battery and not a 150w desktop computer, but as it is now, neither is useful in the real world.
The way i figure it now, if OE devs wanted OE to be useful in the real world, there'd already be i/o to hardware.
Kat
