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« on: February 27, 2008, 17:39:47 »
jeff r *
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Hi, how about this wacky idea...
Use one of the LED's on the Wrap boards (or other hardware if unused LED's exist) as a switch connected to an opto-isolator.  -->(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opto-isolator)

In the same way that a user can login and use the "wake on LAN" to start a computer, a link could be created that would flash or run continuously one of the LED's connected to an opto switch acting as a relay to...
turn off/reboot an outlet with computers, or turn on/off a pump for the liquid helium that cools the small fusion reactor that powers your network of computers.  Grin

Fusion, fission, collapsing field magneto flux capacitor... whatever floats your boat  Wink
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