[Rack] Building some new electronics to open the gate?

[Ben Kochie]

My friend scott said he wants to work on it.  He was thinking about 
ordering a PoE powered arduino board.

viable?
http://store.arduino.cc/ww/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=11&products_id=142

-ben

On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Rubin Abdi wrote:

> So I'm fairly sure there's something wrong with the board hooked up to
> the WISE box that's running the gate, that or the WISE terminal can't
> tickle the parallel port properly anymore.
>
> It would be nice if either...
>
> 1. Something small got built that plugs into ethernet (PoE?) and
> operates a relay when poked.
>
> 2. Something that can run a relay off of Minotaur.
>
> -- 
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
>
>