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[Chris Walker]

I just saw this project linked from Twitter and thought it was pretty cool. And it appears to be from our very own community member Snipehunter. It's an early concept for a "debate timer." Very cool.

Blog Post: I've gone a little strange, these days...



My favorite part:
"It's really not much, but consider that it was made out of a Netduino, breadboard, some LEDs, a few resistors, a pushbutton, some wires and some C# code. In other words, I made that! In a couple of hours of tinkering. I'm a game designer, not an engineer, but this whole open source prototyping movement, and the Netduino specifically have made it easy for someone like me to experiment with this stuff.

"Suddenly, when I see something that behaves as if it's stupid; like my sprinkler controller, I start to think, 'Hmm, what if I made it smarter?' and I start to consider things like wiring my lawn into the weather bureau's reports via the Netduino and some sensors, so that it only ever gets water when it actually needs it. I can do that now! That's not even a fantasy; it's a bullet point on my to-do list now, thanks to the Netduino."

Keep up the great work, Snipehunter... And please, feel free to post here in the community forums. If you'd like to create a new post for your project, I can delete this one...

Chris

[Snipehunter]

heh! Thanks! That was a fun burn of my evening. I'm really impressed by the netduino and what it can do. It's fast becoming an obsession, no question about it. My friend's little daughter had her 7th birthday this weekend and I woke this morning thinking about how cool it would be to swipe her dollhouse for a weekend, wire it up with LEDs, light sensors and a speaker or two, then slave them to a netduino (see, now I'm buying more than one!) that could do things like "haunt the house" or simulate a thunderstorm by flickering lights, playing sounds, etc. The worst part of it all: It's not like I've asked that child if she wants her dollhouse haunted!

[Chris Walker]

My friend's little daughter had her 7th birthday this weekend and I woke this morning thinking about how cool it would be to swipe her dollhouse for a weekend, wire it up with LEDs, light sensors and a speaker or two, then slave them to a netduino (see, now I'm buying more than one!) that could do things like "haunt the house" or simulate a thunderstorm by flickering lights, playing sounds, etc.

The worst part of it all: It's not like I've asked that child if she wants her dollhouse haunted!

Hillarious. And totally awesome.

[kingpin2k]

I'm pretty sure she does. What child doesn't want a haunted doll house?

[José Ángel]

It's a very funny project!!! I think that it would be awesome for Halloween!