I get my stuff from Adafruit. A garage door opener was my first project other than going through the learning sketches. Mine was laughably simple, but it worked. I hooked the Arduino to a desktop because it didn't have networking. I then used twitter (with TweetMyPC I believe) and I wired an old garage door opener to…

I know where you're coming from, and here's how we broke ourselves in. We joined a gym that has child care. Good stuff, we get to watch movies in the cardio theater while the kids are in the next room. The gym also has Parents' Night Out where you pay $15 and you get four hours to eat, see a movie, take a nap,…

My aunt Minerva went that way. We tried to rush her to the local hippie supply and incense store, but we were too late. In the end, she smelled of wet dog and could only gurgle out her pleas for a lotion or bath salt made of lemongrass oil. God rest her smelly soul.