So many projects
Finally killed my WoW account the other week, not sure if it’s stopped working yet or not, haven’t really cared to check. Delia’s considering canceling her account, but hasn’t made the decision one way or the other yet. Feels good to not be sitting in front of the computer the whole time I’m at home, though I usually wind up in front of the TV watching a DVD with my laptop going, but still…
With my new-found spare time I managed to get one of my projects done; I now have a working garage door opener remote! Ended up buying a 4-relay box from PepBoys and wiring it to a power supply from radio shack and velcoing it to the back of the door opener unit. Near as I can tell the relay box was designed to be used in a car to remotely turn on/off accessories like lights to show off to your friends. The outputs could be put in a momentary mode though, so it worked out perfectly for the door opener. As a bonus, I know have 3 spare relay channels in my garage that I could use for something, if I think of anything cool to put out there.
I’ve got a few coding projects I want to work on too, the most important of which is an online scheduling calendar for Delia’s De-Stress Center. I had started it in PHP, but now that I’m working with Mason all the time at work, I decided to switch over and use that instead. It should be relatively simple to throw together, I just need to sit down and get it done one of these nights. It’s harder than I think it should be to sit down and code after getting home from a day of sitting and coding.
I also want to take pieces of the old SimPro code and turn it into a home automation controller. I think the data collection and scripting stuff would work out great with an X-10 interface and a couple of tweaks. I want to scrap the website side of it though and rewrite that from scratch, which will take some time. It’s all in PHP currently, and I have a hard time following the code in a lot of places. That’s probably going to be a long term project.
Also, Evil Dave wants to build a recipe website, which I think would be really cool. I just need to make time to work on that as well. So many projects…
