Re: $50 long-range active RFID for HA

[Beamer Smith <beamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:08:32 GMT, "Kurt Delaney"
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>>"Marc_F_Hult" <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:13:20 -0700, AZ Woody <reply@here> wrote in
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>>> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:48:09 GMT, AZ Nomad
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>>>>On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:01:51 -0500, Marc_F_Hult
>>> <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>There has been considerable interest in long-range active
>>>>>>Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for use with home automation
>>>>>>systems.
>>>>
>>>>>>One can get a set of active (315 MHz or 433MHz) RFID receiver (with
>>>>>>RS-232 interface) and transmitter  PCBs with a claimed range of 8
>meters
>>>>>>(keyfob) 40 meters (car accessory) for about $50 depending on device,
>>>>>>enclosures and antenna chosen.
>>>>
>>>>>What good is it for home automation?  Are you going to make everybody
>>>>>wear badges?
>>>
>>>>Badges, we don't need no stinkin' badges! :)
>>>
>>> Might you mean: "Badges? We ain't got no badges."  ?
>>>
>>> as said by Gold Hat, played by Alfonso Bedoya, in the John and Walter
>>> Huston/Bogart 1948 film _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ ?
>>
>>No, he was referring to Mel Brooke's "Blazing Saddles". :-)
>>
>>Kurt
>>
>
>Ah so ... BS came out in 1977 almost 40 years after the book (1935) which
>was much more, ... hmmm ...  'emphatic' than the language of even the 1948
>movie ;-)
>
>	"Badges, to ^%!-$%%$#&! ^%$# with badges! We have no badges.
>	In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any
> 	stinking badges, you &^%-^%$^&! ^&%!$% and &^%$& tu madre!
>	Come out there from that ^%$&-%$#^ of yours. I have to speak
>	to you."
>
>... Marc
>Marc_F_Hult
>www.NeuralHome.org


In UHF it was "Badgers? We don need no stinkin badgers...!" refering
to an animal welfare TV show put on by the local station...

but I digress...

Beamer Smith
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