The Laundruino Lets You Know When Your Clothes Are Done Over The Net

[Micha] has a soaking appurtenance with an false time information displayed on the front panel. How to compromise this?

Since it is located in his basement, he hated having to examine on the appurtenance ceaselessly to know when his clothing were done. Instead of hauling up and down the steps over and over, he motionless to penetrate in an "end of cycle" notifier of his own.

The washer has an LED that lights when it is at last completed carrying out its thing, so [Micha] private the LED and soldered in two wires, that he then related to his Arduino. When the washer is ended and the LED should be lit, the Arduino senses that the submit has been pulled low, signaling the finish of the cycle. The Arduino was bending in to his home network around an Ethernet shield, enabling him to guard the routine from the soothe of the nearest web browser.

via [ hackAday ] source [ blog.fsfe ]

This access was postedby d.gomba@arduino.cc on Thursday, Aug 18th, 2011 and is filed beneath Actuators , Ethernet , Home Hacks , Protocols , Shields , eHome , motivation , sensors .You can follow any responses to this access by the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a reply , or trackback from your own site.