When it came to choosing the Automated Lighting standard for Quadomated I was absolutely overwhelmed with choices and possibilities.  There are just so many different manufacturers and standards to choose between, and each of them with a dramatically different set of wiring Read More

This might come as a surprise to some of you, but life as a quadriplegic ain’t always full of fairytales and picnics.  Don’t get me wrong, I definitely have more than my share of awesome days and love life, and all that good stuff, but sometimes when I get sick it just really Read More

I’ve been spending lots of time working on my automation rules over the past couple weeks, thinking about the activities I do in my life over and over again, and trying to come up with a way to smartly automate them.  One of these routines I do every single day is my morning Read More

As I’ve played around in this whole world of home automation, I’ve quickly realized that the possibilities are endless, but that in order to do it all I needed more than just a great security/automation panel; I needed a whole house automation system.  So what does this mean?  I Read More

The Presque Isle Community Center is a project I have worked on closely over the past many months and something I think is hugely important to our community.  Looking back through my lifetime of growing up in Presque Isle I can think of no place I further enjoyed or had a larger Read More

Run lots of wire!!! Like way more than you think you’ll ever need… because someday you’ll wish you had it! For Quadomated that meant over 8000 feet of home automation wiring… and I still wish we had pulled some more!  Probably sounds like crazy overkill, but think of it this way, Read More

I had a really funny/awesome encounter with an adorable little girl and her mommy while cruising around the grocery store with Caleb yesterday.  The kid was in the driver’s seat, sitting in the bottom of one of those race car like grocery carts (what did I say… KIDS LOVE RACE Read More

Might as well start with the big guns!  Probably the most important decision of Quadomated and for any home automation project is which security/automation panel will be the central brains of your system? I researched this question for several months and found the folks at Read More

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 Read More

Tune in to the 10 AM Sesame Street Episode, “Brandeis is Looking for a Job” about service dogs this morning!  One of Caleb’s CCI classmates and best buds will be showing the furry stuffed animals how it’s done. Here’s a little sneak peek of the song “Life as a Servi Read More