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Woof! An iPhone-controlled dog treat dispenser
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... he worked on. He wants to be able to check on his dog's well-being and reward the dog with treats from anywhere he can use his iPhone. Stephen found out about ioBridge, a company that develops electronic monitoring and control modules that connect to any Ethernet network and can be controlled via an encrypted web front end. ...
Homebrew iPhone App Lets You Reward Sparky From Afar [Homebrew]
Gizmodo —
... With a CD-R spindle, some cardboard and wood scraps, a giant syringe, a webcam, and some glue, Stephen Myer created the body of a doggy-treat dispenser. He then used ioBridge's beta hardware—which included a pre-made servo smart board and a fill-in-the-blank type web interface—that created a widget and javascript for him. ...
Nerds and Dogs Unite
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... with some simple items that can be found around any self-respecting nerds house and ioBridge's beta hardware . The ioBridge comes with a pre-made servo smart board and a fill-in-the-blank web interface that helped him create a widget with some javascript. Myer then created a web app of his creation for his iPhone. After adjusting the javascript available oh ioBridges site and optimizing the streaming webcamfeed, Myer had live video on his iPhone of his dog's kennel. Now Myer can keep an eye on his dog from anywhere, and reward the dog depending on it's behavior. This almost ...
Feed Your Dog With an iPhone
Wired: Epicenter —
Stephen Myers has a dog, an iPhone and not much time. As a University of Florida Ph. D student, he's rarely home. So he did what any engineer would do: he created a way to give his dog a treat remotely, through his iPhone. Okay, maybe he has too much time.
Myers posted a video (embedded above) of the gizmo in action and wrote up a how-to. He used a beta version of an ioBridge module, hardware that can connect to both the internet and the physical world.
Viewing a simple ...
Control your Fish Tank with your iPhone
iPhoneDemand.com —
It all started with remote control cars, boats, airplanes. Now you have you a remote control for your fish tank using your iPhone. You are able to control your fish tank from anywhere around the world. A webcam feed is used to view your fish tank while controlling what lights you would like to on/off. Pretty neat. This service is brought to you by the people at ioBridge technologies. View the video here.
Found Footage: Pete's FishCam
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Hardware, Humor, Peripherals, Odds and ends, Found FootageRemember the remote-controlled dog treat dispenser from a few weeks ago? Now Pete Raumann has come up with Pete's FishCam, which comes complete with an iPhone interface so that he can remotely watch his fish swimming around in a nicely appointed aquarium. It's more than just a webcam, though -- Pete can also turn the lights on and off (both tank and accent spotlights), pan the camera left and right, and open and close the "treasure chest" in the tank. Pete used the same equipment and ...
Twittering toaster
Hack a Day —
... . Using the ioBridge module and a switch on the toaster, the world can now know when [Hans] is making toast. We recently saw someone use the same unit to ...
Twittering Toaster Offers Some Tasty Bites
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... The toaster uses an off-the-shelf IO-204 monitor and control module that allows it to be plugged to the internet without having to run a home web server. ...
Pouring a beer via iPhone
Hack a Day —
... . He has built a frame from construx and used ioBridge to connect it to his iPhone. He states that he “wanted to make a project that allows for the perfect pour and take out all of that physical work”. Seems like it could use a little adjustment to be a bit less foamy. Maybe an additional frame to adjust the angle of the glass as it is poured. ...
iPhone's Accelerometer Translates Virtual Pour Into Real-World Beer [Thinking And Drinking]
Gizmodo —
The drinkin' tinkerers over at Instructables created the Serv O'Beer to interpret a "pouring" motion with an iPhone into a real, albeit foamy, beer. What an age we live in! Creator "Polymythic" used a Construx building set as his mechanical base and an ioBridge to control the system. It pours the beer a bit violently, just like this previous hack, but if you're drunk enough to insist that tipping your iPhone should result in a real beer, it should do you just fine. [Instructables] ...
Automated shooting range
Hack a Day —
... and an ioBridge module, it has a web interface so he can switch programs from down range. You can see a video example of him shooting some targets after the break. Next,he should make it twitter where each target was hit. ...
iPhone using ioBridge to Monitor and Control Fish Tank
Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog —
... It seems that this ioBridge module is getting quite popular. I haven’t played with one yet but I have already seen a cool ...
Fish Tank Friday: iPhone Control
OhGizmo! —
... the messiness of converting electronics signals into network signals, but it also handles all of the network compatibility and security back-end. It also includes a code-free widget designer to get the project up and running. Sounds easy, and the possibilities are infinite… And the introductory “beta” price of $88 for the base board means you can probably afford one of these just to experiment with. iPod Touch controlled airsoft target range, anyone?
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Another Internet dog feeder
MAKE Magazine —
... Here's another remote dog feeder, this one using an IOBridge I/O module to handle the networking and a simple servo-controlled dispenser made from a compact disc. ...
Wiimote controls Airsoft Gun over Internet
Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog —
... . It uses an ioBridge to allow a Wiimote to control a remote airsoft gun. Since there is a camera on the contraption you are able to hunt from anywhere in the world (as long as you have a high speed internet connection). ...
Net-connected scrolling display
MAKE Magazine —
The folks at OharaRP used an ioBridge, an XBee wireless module, and an array of 8x8 LED modules to create a net-connected, scrolling display.
Wireless LED Sign - XBee + ioBridge
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Automate Your Home Using ioBridge and Twitter
ReadWriteWeb —
... , by day an engineer for Texas Instruments in Florida, has developed a two-way, home automation application using Twitter and ioBridge. We all know about Twitter, the now massively popular 140 character messaging service. ioBridge will be new to many. It's a web platform for remote control and monitoring, which bills itself (no doubt with tongue in cheek) as "one step closer to Skynet." ...
DIY Steampunk Pumpkin
Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog —
... that is sure to please anyone who sees it. He squished tons of parts in there from some of the best DIY providers. His own ioBridge, some sensors from ...
Building a shop presence notification system
MAKE Magazine —
... . They reasoned that they could measure the ambient light level to determine if someone was around, because people tend to turn on the lights when they show up. With this in mind, they hooked up a photocell to a donated iobridge module, and had a notification widget up ...
