My thesis is to create a system that makes connecting the electronics I own—homemade or bought—extremely easy and provides for their remote control and data reporting with a consistent and user-friendly interface.

Many of the projects I’ve built have given someone at one location control over or information about a device at another location.  Each time I established such a connection, I developed a new communcations protocol and built a new pathway between the two items.  This approach works, but it takes time, and it doesn’t capitalize on the potential for networking these items.  I would prefer to be able to connect a project to the internet and have it automatically connected to a network all the way up the application layer.

In creating such a system, my first goal is to my life easier, but I also want to make a system that others could use.  In designing a user-friendly interface for the system, I hope to open the home automation to a wider audience than exists for current systems.  In the future, I see mass-production of the hardware employed as a very real possibility.

So that’s the goal: a user-friendly way to control electronics.