Brad Fitzpatrick is writing Android apps.
My main Android app I care about is my garage door opener. I have a webserver hooked up [to] my garage door opener, so I can open my garage over the network. Combined with a background process doing wifi scanning, the idea's that when I'm on my way home, I pull up to my house on my motorcycle and the garage door magically opens and I back into my garage without taking off my helmet/gloves/etc.
If you've already hooked up a webserver to your garage door opener you're waaaaay down the path to madness, so you know, why the hell not build a mobile app to control it?
What, no RFID reader? Or maybe location-based-service to monitor the coordinates of his phone?
Fucking caveman.
Posted by: Bill Seitz | Oct 20, 2008 at 12:24 PM
I know. If there's one word that comes to mind when I think of bradfitz, it's "caveman."
Posted by: Michael Sippey | Oct 20, 2008 at 02:45 PM
Having seen this web app opening a garage door awesomeness - I can say this is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen in home technology.
Posted by: lisa | Oct 21, 2008 at 10:48 AM
"web server connected to garage door opener" = 2008
"finger server connected to hot tub" = 1995
http://hamjudo.com/hottub_notes.html
Posted by: Edward Vielmetti | Oct 21, 2008 at 01:36 PM
You've been 'wagged, dog!
http://valleywag.com/5066582/six-apart-exec-on-livejournal-founder-waaaaay-down-the-path-to-madness
Posted by: dwf | Oct 21, 2008 at 08:51 PM
Haha, who would have thought of that? That's really a bad arse garage door opener.
Posted by: Paul1 | Nov 21, 2008 at 01:22 AM
Very cool concept! This would be really cool if it also utilized the gps to start the “going home now” activity.
Posted by: utah garage doors | Dec 30, 2008 at 11:21 PM