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Gert Doering writes:
 > Interesting.  Completely useless, but *very* interesting

Actually, you could put a webcam on it, and use it to scan the lights
on the modems in an unattended pop.  :)  Now you just need a robot arm 
to press the buttons.  ( now you know why this is called the silly
season by the newspapers. )

 > (... building a
 > R/C controlled submarine right now :-) ) - is that servo controller
 > something "off the shelf", or built-yourself?

Scott Edwards Electronics.  http://www.seetron.com.

 > (On that topic: I've seen an interesting demo of the RT capabilities of 
 > RT/Linux on the last CeBIT - they control R/C servos by directly
 > connecting their control lines to the parallel port, and sending the
 > signals fast & precise enough from an RT task...)

Cute.  Very cute.

 > > It drives the X-10.com Firecracker product.  That's a 2.4Ghz
 > > transmitter driven from an RS-232 port.  There's an X-10
 > > receiver-cum-appliance-module as well.  Bottle Rocket is the Linux
 > > software that drives it.  Could be very useful for dropping power on a
 > > modem -- another reason to use external modems.  One Firecracker can
 > > control any House/Module code -- that's over 200 devices.
 > 
 > Interesting, I think I'll have to take a very close look at this...

Oh, ahhhh, er, um, I don't know if they have a 220V version.  Sorry.

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