Entrant 79 : Emergency Food Button
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:41 amUser
Stavros
Description
From the first time I saw the Amazon dash button, I was impressed by its
simplicity, and thought that it, or something like it at around the same
price point, would be very useful. Unfortunately, it’s not open at all,
and the more open alternatives are still not very open and cost at least
seven times as much. Therefore, the reasonable thing for me to do is to
sink a few thousand dollars' worth of my time into making one myself!
Since I’m too lazy to cook, I thought that it would be great if I could
create a button that would order food for me. Here in Greece, there’s
are websites that aggregate all the shops that deliver food and allow
you to order from the web, which is perfect for integrating into a
button. So, I decided that what I wanted is a button that I could press
and have food arrive a few minutes later!
Parts
ESP8266
SMD resistors/capacitor
Battery
Push button
Links
Homepage
Video
Images
Stavros
Description
From the first time I saw the Amazon dash button, I was impressed by its
simplicity, and thought that it, or something like it at around the same
price point, would be very useful. Unfortunately, it’s not open at all,
and the more open alternatives are still not very open and cost at least
seven times as much. Therefore, the reasonable thing for me to do is to
sink a few thousand dollars' worth of my time into making one myself!
Since I’m too lazy to cook, I thought that it would be great if I could
create a button that would order food for me. Here in Greece, there’s
are websites that aggregate all the shops that deliver food and allow
you to order from the web, which is perfect for integrating into a
button. So, I decided that what I wanted is a button that I could press
and have food arrive a few minutes later!
Parts
ESP8266
SMD resistors/capacitor
Battery
Push button
Links
Homepage
Video
Images