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Re:Ask HN: How did you hack your home? on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:02AM (#16465725)
Created an automated chicken coop door which opens/closes the door based on sunlight.

It consists of:

  1. Chicken coop  
  2. Old wiper motor to drive the door up/down (the door is suspended on fishing line)  
  3. Arduino Nano  
  4. Motor control shield  
  5. Light sensor  
  6. 2 mechanical switches for the door positions (stop the motor if switch is pressed)  
  7. Old car battery  
  8. 3 chinese 12V 15W solar panels
Re:Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:06AM (#16365737)
Do people really transfer that much money between them on a regular basis? Everyone was touting this as the selling point for some of the crypto currencies, but I've always thought this is a non-issue. It's anecdotal but I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I needed to transfer money to a person and not to a company.
But that wouldn't be organized as a capitalist company then.