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Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House?
pmadden asks: "I'll be building a house this summer (standard straw bale construction, earth plaster, the whole low-tech gig). Naturally, I'll be putting gobs of ethernet in the walls, with drops to the rooms, on the roof, and so on. I'll add wireless too, once it's secure enough to keep all of you out. What gadgets should I plan for, so that I don't have to do a major retrofit? I'll have cables for TPZ cameras, for when they get super-cheap. We'll leave niches for putting in routers and stuff like that. What else? What cool thing will be cheap in a couple of years, leading my wife to ask, 'why didn't you plan for that'? Any recommendations for good Christmas light control systems, and so on?"
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which is controlled by your Server and an Alarm is going off,when its empty. No,i am serious about that!
question: why are you building your house out of straw?
My sig can beat up your sig.
Well failing that, you could always try raised floors and suspended ceilings - maybe even some cubicle partitions...
No, thats a good thing. If you want outside reception, you can buy an outside antenna. Otherwise it is good to keep the signal inside your house and safe from evil wardrivers (and your stupid neighbor trying to log into to your porno network share and deleting all your Asian...Yes, Bill, I know it was you!)
And a telephone jack in the bathroom. Hello.... you are with a telemarketing firm, please hold a second.... (sound effect of taking a massive dump and then a flush).
Panic now, beat the rush!
Then I'll huff and I'll puff till.....
Best regards
You never know when the location of your TV will change.
Just hope it doesn't happen halfway through your favorite show. I hate it when it does that.
Then whatever happens you can just pull the wires through the walls. :)
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And you can paint the walls with that wireless blocking paint that will keep most of us "out".
There's a sale on tin foil hats to keep your brainwaves from leaking out too.
Supply your in-ground sprinkler system with liquid propane and wire it to motion detectors.
And please put it on a webcam so we can watch.
Christmas light control systems
Do you mean an on/off switch?!
*cough* crazy Americans!
After you're done installing the cable ducts in your house, seal them up with some sort of wall plate and pressurize it with Halon. :)
There's no place like
A few VT100 or perhaps VT510 terminals scattered around the house... kitchen, bathroom a.s.o
If someone has made a hole in my wall and spliced into my network cable, my net connection will be the least of my worries.
If your house is going to be made out of straw, don't use gadgets that produce unnecessarily large amounts of sparks. No, seriously.
... Don't forget to build several very very very small rooms around the building, for future nanotech gadgets.