Blog ≫ 2012 ≫ We have come up with a genuinely useful use for the lightwaverf remote sockets!

It's Clare's idea too, so it's very exciting for me that she's getting involved in my new hobby.

So, when thing two cries in the night and he's ready for his next feed, and it's my turn, I have to head down to the kitchen and get the bottle from the fridge. But it's too cold, so I have to boil the kettle to warm the bottle, which takes time, and he's still crying. My dream idea 1 here 2 is to set something up that detects the sound and boils the kettle, but Clare's clever compromise is to be able to remotely operate the kettle from upstairs. So that's what I'm going to try and do today! Then we just need to leave the kettle with water in, and turned (but the lightwaverf remote socket turned off) and then I can turn it on from upstairs.

  1. Obviously the actual dream is a robot butler to prepare the milk and feed number two son while I sleep.
  2. Interesting side note here, I first added the previous note by actually putting a ¹ in the page and then some more content below. These footnotes are a bit Terry Pratchett influenced. These days it is more automated than that, I do not hardcode the little numbers...

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