Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] net-enabled microcontrollers for appliances,VCRs, stereos

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Why not wire everything? You can put a web server in a gadget for about $1
and the network interface isn't much more. Hell put a webserver in every
milk carton that tells the fridge when it is low. It's so cheap that you
don't really lose anything by giving the extra interface to the people who
might want it and it gets cheaper the more it's used.

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the
opening of new frontiers."
                                       -- Arthur Koestler

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Spurling, Shannon wrote:
> 
> > I have a question. This may sound bad, but what is the deal with every
> > one trying to make every thing digital and computerized? I mean, there
> > is a time and place for every thing. The whole idea of wiring my
> > toaster up, while it might be a good thing to do for fun in the dorms,
> > is totaly stupid.
> 
> 
> I have also wondered about that kind of thing.  People talk about getting
> their refrigerators on the internet.  Why?  They say that someday we'll
> have our refrigerators tell us what when we are running low on milk.  OK,
> but that day is a long way off!
> 
> On the other hand, if I could connect to my VCR and stereo via the 'net,
> I'd do it.  If I could program my VCR from my office, or better still,
> from a PDA, I definitely would.  I want that now.  Is anyone producing
> that yet?

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