{"id":1961,"date":"2013-03-14T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:54:14","slug":"geeks-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1961","title":{"rendered":"geeks night out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lexingtonbeerworks.com\/home\/node\/1896\">Geeks&#8217; Night Out at Beerworks<\/a> in Lexington.<\/p>\n<p>One of the people I met was a junior EE major at UK named Robyn who, along with two of her friends, is looking to start a home <a href=\"http:\/\/uknow.uky.edu\/content\/fourteen-student-entrepreneur-teams-compete-uk-venture-challenge-0\">automation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5across.org\/first-2013-meeting-february-27th-2013\">company<\/a> (The Unity Box) &#8211; but not in the realm of a company like <a href=\"http:\/\/ambiancesystems.com\">Ambiance<\/a>\u00a0(interestingly, a company I was going to start with as a junior developer back in 2001 when the bottom dropped out of the tech bubble &#8211; but that&#8217;s another story). They want to make a small control device along the lines of a DVR or Roku that would control smart outlets\/switches in your home (and be able to learn\u00a0<em>a la<\/em> the <a href=\"http:\/\/nest.com\">Nest<\/a>\u00a0about your habits (with, of course, manual overrides for non-pattern events)).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/belkin.com\/us\/wemo-switch\">WeMo<\/a> from Belkin.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn &#8211; looks like you and Belkin should talk: they&#8217;ve done the part about the smart outlets \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I went to the Geeks&#8217; Night Out at Beerworks in Lexington. One of the people I met was a junior EE major at UK named Robyn who, along with two of her friends, is looking to start a home automation company (The Unity Box) &#8211; but not in the realm of a company &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1961\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">geeks night out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,22],"tags":[121,371,379,717],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-ideas","tag-automation","tag-hardware","tag-home","tag-startup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}