Washer dryer alam

Rutcgr18

So my wife and i moved in to a new house. We can never hear the alarm for the washer and dryer when its finished. Since I have 2 stamps haning around i was thinking if i could get ethernet to one of them and some how have it compose and email or sms and let me know the laudry is done. Thoughts??
Thanks
Mike

WBA Consulting

Awesome idea. Others could chime in on using the Spinnerette or a PINK for that manner of setup. You may want to look into using XBee because it could be much simpler from a code perspective. Just have an XBee setup insde as well with a blinking light or buzzer. I am working on a project currently that will be very similar that uses XBee. One of our machines at work is set to run a cycle and the operator may walk away for other tasks. Now, he tried to keep an eye on the rough time of when it finishes. I will be making a setup to sense when the gantry returns to a specific "end of cycle" position and then alert a Propeller based pager he will be wearing via XBee.

erco

Baby monitor transmits sound to whereever you are. Walmart, $15 max. Ready to go.
Simpler is better-er.

Or, make a Prop object for the exchange with HiFi WiFi Bluetooth HiDef HiRes iPhone 1080p Blackfin Firewire Nano MP4, GPS-empowered, web-enabled, GUI that does the same thing, but requires a daily hardware reset.