Living with MIDAS
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Project MIDAS
MIDAS: Multifunction In-Dorm Automation System
Since moving into my dorm this last fall, my roommate RJ Ryan and I have been working on creating the most elaborate automation system we could envision. Featuring everything from web control, voice activation, and a security system, to large continuously running information displays, electric blinds, and one-touch parties, the custom designed MIDAS Automation System has brought ease to our lives (if one doesn't count all the time it took to actually build and program the system).
The following page will both describe the system functionalities as well as a description on how it was built. Anyone with some programming and construction skills, drive, and a couple hundred dollars should be able to replicate this system.
Every function of the room is automated and be sure to check out the video of "Party Mode" being activated. Very cool!
Posted by DaveH at May 29, 2006 7:22 PM