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SjLucky 
yeah it is... (add one to me muhahaha suckrs)
I do have questions though...
Can you use the ir and the sonic sensors in-conjunction with each other?
The rotary and slide volume control thats not motorized? (ei: you get a phone call and your frontend reduces the volume to 10% or something the slider or rotary moves like black magic to said level)
How hard is to program to allow for new sensors and such? Is that something end-users could input or would they have to get a special unit made with said new programming? If so is there a stand-alone software for programming needs or is it something done with a text editor (I hate coding)?
IR/Ultrasonic: Yes. IR is light, ultrasonic is sound. They will not interfere at all. The IR is an
extremely directional sensor. Good for measurements. The ultrasonic sensor is more of a proximity sensor, because it is much less directional.
The volume controls are not motorized. I have seen some motorized rotary encoders for sale somewhere I could fool around with, but no promises and it is low on the list right now. For auto-volume control that is all software wise, I could see the sensors being a problem. I will be looking into digital encoders which is higher priority than the motorized ones (
) with "infinate spin" or in other words like a HU's volume knob. You can rotate it forever and it wont stick. This will hopefully be available soon-ish.
Any sensor that spews out a voltage from 0-5 volts will work. I am currently coding into the software a function reader. So you can type a function into the line in the skin file, and it will become a math formula using the sensor's input voltage as the variable. All the "programming" so to speak if you use our software is done through the skin file. Plain text. Open it in Notepad or any plain text editor which means
NOT M$ WORD and edit it, save, restart program. Of course if you want something even more, then you are welcome to modify the source code which is available on the website as well. Everything is open source, and we would love to get everything community based so you make a contribution, then it goes on the site.
As of now, if you make something you want to share with the world, let me know in an email and I will put it on the website. In the future (medium priority) there will be an upload page on the website where you can upload your contribution directly. I will encode some security into it, hence why it isnt done, but I hope nobody sees this as an invitation for malicious code, because we will track you down and feed you a baker's dozen of rabid piranhas and then broadcast that as a future demotivation for hacking.
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