{"id":3389,"date":"2010-03-26T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:33:21","slug":"the-world-needs-a-smart-toaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/the-world-needs-a-smart-toaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Needs a Smart Toaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a sensor and some processing power, it shouldn&#8217;t be hard to make a toaster that can actually make perfect toast every time. I&#8217;m astounded that such a product doesn&#8217;t exist. It wouldn&#8217;t be expensive in large quantities.<\/p>\n<p>Possible sensors include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>visual camera<\/li>\n<li>infrared camera<\/li>\n<li>gas sensor &#8211; Sparkfun has $5 alcohol and carbon monoxide sensors. I wonder what burnt toast &#8220;smells&#8221; like.<\/li>\n<li>standard &#8220;darkness&#8221; knob<\/li>\n<li>ambient thermometer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possible controls include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shutting off at the right time<\/li>\n<li>a bell to alert the consumer of soon-to-be-done toast and done-it&#8217;s-getting-cold toast<\/li>\n<li>delivering different power levels to different parts of the bread (eh, sounds expensive and not useful)<\/li>\n<li>changing the wattage, allowing &#8220;keep warm&#8221;, &#8220;warm throughout&#8221; (no more lava pop tarts!), and &#8220;crisp&#8221; settings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hurdles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy to use interface<\/li>\n<li>Technical challenge: it&#8217;s never been done!<\/li>\n<li>Really, it&#8217;s never been done?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I should make this.<\/p>\n<p>PS. Ha, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/370432\/this-is-how-a-high-tech-smart-toaster-bbqs-your-bread\">this fancy $130 toaster sucks<\/a>. I can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a sensor and some processing power, it shouldn&#8217;t be hard to make a toaster that can actually make perfect toast every time. I&#8217;m astounded that such a product doesn&#8217;t exist. It wouldn&#8217;t be expensive in large quantities. Possible sensors include visual camera infrared camera gas sensor &#8211; Sparkfun has $5 alcohol and carbon monoxide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}