On/off a mac

Cycling '74's icon

hi all,

I am designing a permanent installation where a person (other people's to the system) goes has to on/off it. Somebody knows some device to on/off a Macintosh G5 from distant (10 meters for example).

best

mzed's icon

Passive Infrared would do it -- like a security motion detector. Check some of the sensor threads. To get ideas about how to get this data into your computer, etc. How you proceed depends a lot on your interest in hardware hacking.

mz

PS maybe this is a starting point?

lpmorin@gmail.com's icon