Re: My latest cool DIY automation idea

["Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then you have it say things like, "Good evening, Gladys. At least I think
this is Gladys based on weight estimation, though you seem to have put on a
few pounds recently."

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Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
www.charmedquark.com

"Mike Barnes" <july2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In comp.home.automation, Robert Green wrote:
>>The perfect solution would probably encompass microwave detectors, RFID
>>sensors, IR beams, PIRs, pressure mats, 1000+ lines of code and a fast CPU
>>to figure out where people *really* are in a house.  Anything less is
>>going
>>to get it wrong a lot of the time.
>
> Or simply mount each room's floor on four load cells, greatly reducing
> the coding complexity.
>
> I leave the constructional details as an exercise for the reader.
>
> --
> Mike Barnes