Gibran Gibran
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Greetings all,
My son 11 and I (the dad) decided to embark on this project while eating lunch at my friend's restaurant. The idea stemmed from the restaurant's POS system and the kitchen printer, an order is sent to the printer without any other indicators (blinky light or sounds).
The printer is connected via an ethernet cable with an IP address, standard IP network. My thoughts were to insert a coupler between the printer and the network switch and with external magic to either a light or a buzzer. When an order is sent to the printer the cook is aware if he did not see the printer.
Here's the problem, or problems. First I have no electronics background, but my 11-year-old love this stuff and we do simple projects with breadboards and Raspberry Pi
. The other problem is I am not sure if the voltage on ethernet cable changes depending on the amount of traffic is traversing the wire, this is something I need to confirm.
Any suggestions, pointers, is this doable and where do we start?
Thanks a bunch,
Gibran and Gibran
My son 11 and I (the dad) decided to embark on this project while eating lunch at my friend's restaurant. The idea stemmed from the restaurant's POS system and the kitchen printer, an order is sent to the printer without any other indicators (blinky light or sounds).
The printer is connected via an ethernet cable with an IP address, standard IP network. My thoughts were to insert a coupler between the printer and the network switch and with external magic to either a light or a buzzer. When an order is sent to the printer the cook is aware if he did not see the printer.
Here's the problem, or problems. First I have no electronics background, but my 11-year-old love this stuff and we do simple projects with breadboards and Raspberry Pi
Any suggestions, pointers, is this doable and where do we start?
Thanks a bunch,
Gibran and Gibran