Sometimes I forget things. In particular, I forget to transfer my clean but wet laundry from the washing machine to the dryer. When this happens, I have to waste time, detergent, electricity, and water to re-wash the clothes. My wife’s sister has an expensive race-car-red washing machine that plays a few cheerful musical notes when the cycle is finished. That reminder is helpful, and my better half likes the little tune, but I figured I could get crafty and make the dumb old washer and dryer whisper in my ear through the internet. Here’s how I did it.
I especially dig the simple solution for attaching the accelerometer sensor to the machine:
Strong enough to stay attached and yet easy enough to remove when needed.
Read more here at The Tech Report and grab the code from here on GitHub.
Featured Adafruit Products!
Adafruit LIS3DH Triple-Axis Accelerometer (+-2g/4g/8g/16g): This sensor communicates over I2C or SPI (our library code supports both) so you can share it with a bunch of other sensors on the same I2C bus. There’s an address selection pin so you can have two accelerometers share an I2C bus. Read more.
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