Raspberry-Pi-Powered, Android-Controlled Remote Garage Door Opener

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If this goes on, pretty soon all garage door openers will have CPUs over 1Ghz and no self-respecting citizen will have less than 512MB of RAM.

The real elite will have scalable, enterprise-ready cloud-based garage door opener backoffice systems with parallel processing capability and huge scalability.

all garage door openers will have CPUs over 1Ghz and no self-respecting citizen will have less than 512MB of RAM.

...snd NSA will snoop your keys for all the other agencies. ;-)

A good reason to go with the RasPi and a commodity USB Wi-Fi adapter here is that it will very likely end up cheaper than an Arduino (clone) plus a Wi-Fi shield. The latter can cost up to $90 [1]. Depending on where you live a TP-Link TL-MR3020/TL-WR703N wireless router might be a cheaper alternative to the Pi that has both Wi-FI and GPIO on-board but it is a bit more of a hassle to wire up.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11287

Sounds like a good application for an Electric Imp (WiFi controlled GPIO for $30).

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