Raspberrypi

I've been tinkering with my [raspberry-pi][raspberry-pi] for quite some time now. What I like about it because it is cheap ($25), it's run Linux (especially debian based) and most of all it's have General Purpose Input Output pin. Since I was a kid, I always wanted to control electronic appliance remotely. Luckily my friend [@pimnijdam][pimnijdam] thought me how to control a relay board. Basically it's just like an electric switch that connect/disconnect current when you supply a low voltage.

So I connect one of the GPIO pin to the relay board and from the relay board to the lamp. Now I can control the desk lamp through my raspberry-pi by issuing a linux command. Had been successfully doing this, I wanted to the lamp not only from the raspberry pi but anywhere. The easiest way that I could think of is running a web server inside the raspberry-pi. The debian repository is quite awesome. So I could install a ruby/python and it only took a single command.