Previously we told the story of how we hacked an elevator and talked mostly about the hardware involved. Now we will tell you about the easy part: how to make a mobile app in HTML5 and JavaScript that allowed us to both call and unlock the doors of our office elevator. Using Evothings Studio and the Electric Imp IDE we could quickly … Read More
During a previous developers’ Hack Night, we decided to connect the office elevator to the internet and a mobile app. With the use of an Electric Imp, together with a simple electronic circuit and a simple mobile application developed with Evothings Studio in html and javascript, we could remotely both call the elevator and unlock its doors from anywhere.
