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Home Automation Overview

One of the primary goals when I started Quadomated was to document the building of a “passive solar smart automated home.”  Throughout this journey I showed bits and pieces of the pre-wiring, wrote posts/took pictures of the individual subsystems, and in a couple places even
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Quadomated is Back!

After way too many months of silence, a summer full of Caleb the Super Dog adventures unshared, Quadomated electronic awesomeness undocumented, and my rants about the screwedupness of the disability system unheard I think it’s time Quadomated refound its voice! And this
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Just a Teaser… It’s about Time You Say!

Lousy excuse I know, but I’m finding is so impossible to keep myself away from the new house (especially when the guys are there working), that by the time I get home at night I’ve got an inbox full of e-mails and the rest of my regular life to catch up on that I’m
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Automation Overview

Hard to believe that it’s been almost a full week since I wrote last, but throw in the preparation for a few weddings, bachelor party, 10-year high school reunion, trying out new wheelchairs, and applying for grants and you can see how quickly time can escape. And this was
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The Game Plan:

So I’ve been thinking about how I can best design/research/blog this material and have decided to break it into smaller chunks that will hopefully be more manageable and easier to tackle. I think I’ll probably break it down something like this… 1. Land (Survey
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