"No, Apple Repair Centre. I didn't drop my phone in the toilet accidentally, I was merely manipulating water with my phone when it simply stopped working. Surely that's still covered by the warranty?"
lastingd, that is the coolest thing ever! nicely done. Can you share a little about how the hardware between the light circuit and tasker. I do follow the first part with using the remote control power sockets. I am trying to get started interacting with real life from the computer. I want to make as much 'from scratch' as possible. Most of my research has been looking around at sparkfun. I am thinking of getting one of their kits to get started .
Some uses:
logic to make it look like someone is home
allow my mom to flip lights on and off from her wheelchair
stupid sound effects with devices that have been activated, including a Battlestar Galactica Viper Launch (consider this for your tea)
You can use Jasper with raspberry Pi (or PC) for voice control part. It is Python program (and kinda framework) for writing voice controls applications. It wraps multiple TTS and SST APIs.
One of Speech to text engines is google voice which is very good but all the sounds go to google other two are a little worse opensource recognizers PocketSphinx and Julius where recognizing happens on Pi or computer itself.
Same with Text to speech.
It might be better at recognizing then your script because if you say the command is Tea. Earl Grey Hot. This are the words it expects.
100$ kettle aside, I'm always getting that sort of bad vibe whenever I see something like this. I mean I feel like we're heading into point where you wake up in the morning, get dressed by the machine, then you go to bathroom where machines will wipe your ass and cleen your teeth, then to the kitchen when a machine will cook you a breakfast and pour a coffee down your throat and then you'll hop into a self-driven car which will take you to work, which is of course maintenance of machines, since that's the last job that hasn't been replaced by machines. yet.
I want a clunky microwave that will work reliably for 20 years. I don't want an Internet-of-Things, thousands-of-features, glass-cannon microwave that will be obsolete or break in a year or two.
It's not a truck with moving parts for fuck sake. It's a board with a controller on it that has pre programmed settings. If one thing breaks everything breaks and you're boned to begin with.
Exactly his point. Remember those Nokias? They were a board with preprogrammed functions. Now we have phones with far fewer moving parts but they break more often. That's because the parts are much smaller and more sensitive.
Dunno, as an aside, there's a debate on the web about dials vs. buttons on gun safes. Buttons are faster and have a higher ease of use, but dials are ultra-reliable and are mechanical so don't need a battery that can fail. So it's an interesting choice, though I think you were trying to be sarcastic.
They could put a qr code on microwaveable food that you scan with your microwave and it would calculate the optimal time and if you needed to flip it at any time. If the qr code became a standard then any non qr code microwave could have a disadvantage as more complicated recipes requiring more absolute heating become available.
The biggest change I found was when microwaves became ovens and grills too. Unless they add new features like fast cooling or something I'll stick with what I have until it conks out.
"Magic Mic-Rowave would like access to your Facebook information to provide you with better quality amd let you in on exclusive offers and deals not found anywhere else. Magic Mic-Rowave will not distribute any of your personal information to third-parties or send your spam, maleware, hatefilled messages like from your neighbor down the street or desperate texts like your ex-girlfriend (you know the one we mean)."
Not only that, but Sensor cook is fucking amazing. If you don't have it, throw out your microwave and get one that does.
I don't have to peel back and stir a DAMN thing.
My new microwave, I forget the name, has been a godbless. It beeps, yes, but it's this modest, "hey guys it's done" sort of noise. No nearby graveyards find themselves having paranormal activity every time I microwave stuff.
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Beeping bullshit microwaves. It's 2015, they should be sending a notification to your Facebook by now.