#x10

"You need two parts: the Android App (apk link; Android Market link) and the server app running in your house. Further, the server app needs to be connected to X10 hardware to toggle your garage door."

"Have a cat that won't stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course)."

"I’d like to share a few notes on my more prosaic experiment of using [Twitter] as part of my home automation system."

"Using an X-10 control system, Zack Anderson and his roommate RJ Ryan hooked up strobe lights, black lights, a fog machine, laser light show, scrolling LED sign, disco ball, and an LCD projector to their computers so that all the effects would sync with w