Electronic door opener hack brings laziness to new heights
There are
some crazy theorists out there who conjecture that we spend more time and work on creating time saving devices than it
would ever take to perform the task in the first place, but as we said, those guys are crazy -- either that, or they're
just jealous of Alexandre Novello and his l33t hax0r skills. It seems Alexandre grew tired of walking across the room to
open the door for people, so he wrote himself some software and hooked up to the door's electronic opener via a hardware
switch and a parallel port. Sounds like a nice calorie saving scheme he's got going, keep on slacking hard Alex![Via Hack-A-Day]
















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bowlhed @ Feb 4th 2006 5:43PM
sounds good to me.where can i get one!
laura @ Feb 4th 2006 5:54PM
couldn't you mod this a little so you could open your regular exterior or interior doors? I don't often tell my guests to go out through the garage, but I would like to be able to remotely control other doors in the house, like to let the dogs in and out.
Terry @ Feb 4th 2006 9:47PM
u can never be 2 lazy
Donald @ Feb 4th 2006 10:56PM
And so we move one step closer to automatic-opening doors and/or transporters.
This is a good thing.
Jared @ Feb 5th 2006 12:59AM
laziness is a human instinct... rock on Alex
gnome @ Feb 5th 2006 6:31AM
100% pointless
ismail ?r @ Feb 5th 2006 6:31AM
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Andrew Wang @ Feb 5th 2006 9:50AM
Let's think about how useful this could be. For example, the elderly can open the door without having to get up.
me @ Feb 5th 2006 10:09AM
The Comments link via the front page is broken.
It is
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It should be
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HP @ Feb 5th 2006 10:24AM
Laziness is an engine of progress ;)
Chlamydia @ Feb 5th 2006 10:56AM
Alex is going to need a door opener for his fridge, bathroom door and bedroom door if he plans on living like a normal homosapien. But then again, feasting on your arms and fingernails isn't that bad either, right ALEX?
jeff smith @ Feb 5th 2006 12:23PM
Laziness is an engine of progress.100% support.:)
NYCReception @ Feb 5th 2006 1:09PM
As a receptionist on a floor that doesn't technically have a receptionist, this would totally rock my world.
Rock on Alexandre!
stretchdog @ Feb 5th 2006 1:57PM
Sounds like Silver Spoons on 80's TV! Yay for taking creativetechnological steps backwards!
Kris @ Feb 5th 2006 7:48PM
Uh, what l33t hax0r skills? Couldn't he just get another remote control for the garage door?
brett @ Feb 7th 2006 1:40AM
hey i did the same thing by tying a rope to the fridge door, the toilet flusher, and the dogs tail. Now everything is voice activated when i call the dog!