Chapter 9Android Door Lock
Tired of carrying around old-fashioned metal keys to your home? You’re probably already carrying a smartphone. Wouldn’t it be much more convenient to open your front door via an app that you built for your smartphone instead? Wouldn’t it also be a nice security feature to take a photo of the person(s) unlocking your door with this app and email that captured photo as an attachment to yourself? (See Figure 36, Open doors wirelessly using a smartphone.)
In this project, we are going to use an inexpensive, first generation Android phone. We will connect it to a Sparkfun IOIO (“yo-yo”) board and a relay switch to operate an electrified door latch. The first-gen Android phone will run a server that will respond to ...
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