We remember the days when every home item from a bathtub to the kitchen sink was seemingly being controlled by the iPhone, just because it can. Well, it seems like those days are coming to the Windows Phone now, as Mike Linnen shows us his lawn sprinkler controlling Windows Phone device.
While the iPhone allows using the hardware port on the phone directly, Windows Phone does not, so this project uses an Azure web service, a laptop and a netduino as intermediate controls. Essentially, an app on the windows phone makes a call to the Azure web service, which in turn triggers the netduino to turn the sprinklers on and off.
We look forward to more hardware projects with windows phone, so if you know of any, please send us a link in the comments.We also hope that Microsoft allows us more control over the USB interface in future versions of the operating system, we can have robots with windows phone brains.
