Category Archives: Bad Ideas

Take one of those big red switches, add wifi or wired ethernet, webserver and RTC.  Use rdate or openntpd or something to sync the clock.  Why do all of this? Call it a “I’m running late dead-man’s switch”. Push it … Continue reading →

Take a picture of the license plate with your camera phone and send it to the “your lights are on” website. The web service OCRs the license place (should be easy, right?) and one-way hashes it. Look up in the … Continue reading →

There are quite a few accidents where a driver falls asleep at the wheel, or has some medical problem that causes the driver to loose control of the vehicle. Our technology is not quite good enough for a general autonomous … Continue reading →