Re: [SLUG] computer-controlled outlet

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 13:59:26 EDT


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:49:39AM -0400, Eben King wrote:

> Hi, I'm looking for an outlet I can turn on/off under software control.
> Does such a thing exist? I have a few applications in mind -- a
> long-running script on my laptop/PDA that would automatically turn on the
> charger at (say) 10% and off at 95%; and a cron job that would turn on my
> lava lamps at $TIME1 and off at $TIME2 (they take a while to warm up).

I dunno, but you might try a place like Make magazine, makezine.com .

Paul

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