It costs £1300?!?!?
Theres just something sadistic about monitoring traps over the internet but obviously I can see the advantage to knowing when a trap has been activated so it can be reset.
You could make something cheaper with an intel edison for fucks sakes. Doesn't have to be an edison either any dev board would work.
Ridiculous price. You can see the trap is a very simple design and there is no way the second unit needs a new Ryzen CPU and a GTX 1080 to be able to receive and send signals over Internet. This shouldn't be more than 100-200$.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;51863595]Ridiculous price. You can see the trap is a very simple design and there is no way the second unit needs a new Ryzen CPU and a GTX 1080 to be able to receive and send signals over Internet. This shouldn't be more than 100-200$.[/QUOTE]
I could build something like this for less than 50$
[QUOTE=Topzombie;51865143]I could build something like this for less than 50$[/QUOTE]
you could probably build them and sell them for $20 retail price and that's not even counting with the bulk discounts you'd be able to get for even small/medium scale manufacturing.
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[QUOTE=Aide;51863441]You could make something cheaper with an intel edison for fucks sakes. Doesn't have to be an edison either any dev board would work.[/QUOTE]
You really don't even need that, could probably do it with something as low tech as a fucking 8086 if you need processing power at all really. If your only goal is to report when a trap is set or not you really just need a voltage source that passes through a switch that trips when the trap goes off and it transmits a signal. This can be done with a simple mechanical trap that either separates or joins 2 electrical contacts. Programming it to self identify for a mousetrap tracking software is the only real part that's at all even close to complex. All it has to do network wise is send either a single 1 or a 0 depending on how you set up your switch, since a trap is either set or sprung so our limitations here are boolean, so true and false. It must send this data to a specific server, and send it with either a numeric, char set or even a string as an identity to tell you what trap sent it. The most expensive parts would be the network integration and batteries/solar/whatever you're using to power the thing, though it probably doesn't need /that/ much power since all it has to do is send one signal, if we're being generous we'll send a return signal to tell it that the send was good so we can program it to make sure it sends a good report of its state.
That's simple stuff.
Your receiving unit only needs to be able to receive these signals, process a simple boolean variable change based on an identity given by, at most complex, a string. It wouldn't need to be more complex than a pi-zero, and it could probably run on something with as little computational ability as a late 80's/early 90's cpu.
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