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"Geir Harris Hedemark" wrote in message ... "Ted Byers" writes: computer located in or adjacent to the kitchen. I will grant that the keyboard can be done away with (as can the mouse) by resorting to a touch screen, but that makes entering a new recipe tedious at best. With software You would also need a power washer to clean the gunk off the touch screen if you are anything like me when cooking. ;-) When I cook, I tend to wash my hands repeatedly, every time I handle a different food; especially meats. And I clean my work area thoroughly when I have finished with a major step in a given recipe. I guess that is a habit learned from Mom. Alas, I don't do much cooking any more because I like things a little diverse and interesting but my sister and neice and nephew prefer things I find bland and won't eat the kinds of things I'd prepare (if I made a meat sauce for pasta, they won't eat it if I put in garlic or chili or cumin or mushrooms or beans or onion ...). :-( And I can't be bothered just for me. We have thought along the same lines, by the way. My employer makes a customizable XML publishing system. I had thought of using that, interlinking ingredients and categories to make something you can tell what you have, and get a list of possible recipes along with skill level needed and preparation time. This would also make it possible to get derivatives of sauce hollandaise by navigating the "genealogy" of recipes. The single biggest benefit of my product is that it does a thorough analysis of the ingredients of a recipe (including especially quantities) in order to estimate the nutritional properties of the recipe (e.g. calories, fats, protein, carbohydrates, sodium, &c.) and supports the entry of limits on nutrient intake (e.g. at least so many grams/day but not more than this number of grams/day) and food allergies. I had thought of using XML, but I post-poned that since I didn't want to take the time to develop fully fledged XML parsing code. XML is easy, almost as easy as basic HTML, but the code to manage it isn't. It hadn't occured to me to add the ability to search the recipes on the basis of an ingredient list, or to add skill level and preparation time as fields describing a recipe. I think I'll add that, as well as categories, to the "premium" version of the product. :-) I am intrigued by the notion of interlinking ingredients and categories, but I haven't yet done an analysis of that kind of feature so I don't yet have a good idea as to how to implement it. I already have an old laptop I had figured on using as an LCD screen donor. I don't want a touch screen. I want a touchpad which is easily detached from the LCD and which can be cleaned by washing under running water (epoxy is your friend, at least at a steady 22C), chassi would be a homegrown fibreglass/carbon fibre molding with Daddys Heatsink on the back, eliminating the need for a fan and the fan opening, which is a good way for water to get inside. The recipes would be located on the stationary box, which has a keyboard. IP interconnection by 802.11b, which just leaves the power cord for the laptop/webpad thingy. Power outlets are readily available in fully sealed variants. I don't work designing military electronics any more, which is a hassle. A handful of weatherproof connectors and a few metres of sealing gaskets would come in handy. There seems to be no limit to the amount of money stuff like that can cost when you buy a few at a time. I don't normally want a touch screen. Using it is usually a royal PITA when it comes to designing a user friendly interface that doesn't care if there is a keyboard attached or not. I like your design, but I don't know enough about hardware to hazard making one of my own (plus, as a result of a diabetes related neuropathy, I am slowly losing my manual dexterity). When it comes to hardware, I rely on my brother-in-law to handle the details. The problem is time. The problem is always time. Ah yes. You ARE prone to understatement, aren't you?!?!?! ;-) Cheers, Ted |
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