Having fun with Internet of Things or as we call them Fings..
FinG noun: a fun internet of things, thing.
De-stress FING
I used to do tech support and typically at 5pm Friday evening I get a call. The issue is that the caller has often suffered 90% brain failure! He can’t think, can’t read a manual or listen to a bit of advice but sure can talk! So I used to get a bit hacked off!!
Now with the power and simplicity of the electricimp I created the “De-stress button thing!” One hard whack on the big red button sends a message to another imp which plays the count down from Thunderbirds. In that time I get to “calm down” or “fry the guy”
Thanks to Brendan Dawes for pointing the way: http://brendandawes.com/blog/walkietalkie
Mysterons FING
Now add a PIR sensor and the future audio streaming feature of the imp you will be able to trigger random messages to play as someone walks past the coffee machine at work :)
