Leonard Caillouet wrote:
"John Larkin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:05:24 GMT, DaveC wrote:


One regular poster here has designed a microcontroller-based, networked (
(remotely accessible), whole-home climate control monitoring system
(heating-AC/hot h2o/heat exchangers/the whole works). Others have modified
their digital toaster (I'm not mentioning names... (c: )

How has your profession (or hobby) leaked into your everyday life? What
customizations or applications have you put electronics to that makes your
life easier and/or more fun?

Working with electronics all day, I want nothing to do with it in my
time off. I want all my household appliances to be as simple, dumb,
reliable, and analog as possible. I'm comfortable with simple, old-gen
PC applications because they work and are predictable.

We push technology only in those places where it really pays off. If
there's no big benefit, stick the the stuff that's known to work.

John


I feel the same way. Stuff that needs work at home sits for months. I have
very basic stuff that does what we need and don't spend much effort at home
on electronics.


I rather like garage doors that don't have to be manually opened in the
rain, a car that is warm to get into- first thing on a Winter's morning,
to know what is in my huge freezer and what is reaching its "use by"
date, to run a bath without standing over the taps and burning/freezing
my hand and gets the temperature right and stays at that temperature,
doorlocks that lock themselves at night - so I don't have to go and
check in my jim jams, lights that switch on when needed and off when
not, etc, etc...


I'd much rather spend a little bit of time once than have to put up with
some thing as it is, year after year after year... YMMV.

--
Sue