[57north-discuss] Volunteer to take over doorbot and/or (possibly) hackhub?

[David Lyon]

Hi Robert,

On 2014-07-15 01:42, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> In my ideal world, now I've made this decision, I'd just quietly start
> ignoring you all - but I'd rather not just drop the space 
> infrastructure
> that I've been looking after.

Sometimes it can get that way.

> So, I'm looking for volunteers to take
> over responsibility for doorbot and, if Iain doesn't want to do it 
> himself, hackhub.
> 
> Hackhub is a pretty simple python/Flask CRUD webapp so shouldn't be too
> tricky to pick up for anyone that knows python and/or web development.

I had a look at this and it looks well written. Just to share my story I 
was a computer programmer from the Z80 days when tinkering with the 
hardware wasn't really doable. Cut 20 or so years and after getting 
involved in my local hackerspace I was doing all sorts of things I never 
knew about before.

These are some of my blog/photo posts: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidLyon/posts

> doorbot involves a wider range of tech (but each bit is pretty simple):
> electronic stuff to control the strike plate, an arduino to interface
> that to the PC, and then another python/Flask webapp to provide the
> interface to trigger opening the door from hackhub.
> The code side of doorbot is at https://github.com/ormiret/doorbot
> And a sketch of the circuitry plus some explanation of how it works:
> https://57north.co/wiki/Doorbot
> 
> I'm happy to go over any of the details with anyone who's willing to
> take either of these on.

Looks pretty good.

Globally (I'm told) lots are chasing the Internet-of-Things type 
solutions. I've been doing a similar thing for the Attiny85 which is 
smaller and cheaper.

Regards

David