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DIY* Home and Environmental Monitoring, Control
and Automation Using Traditional Interfaces
The Daniel Carter Beard House is located in Covington Kentucky on the banks of the Licking River near its confluence with the Ohio River across from Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio
"Uncle Dan" Beard was a surveyor,
artist, outdoorsman, prolific author, and a founder of the Boy Scouts of
America. Central to his messages was the importance of self-reliance. |
"Do It Yourself " (DIY)*
Our antebellum home, the Daniel Carter Beard House is one of two National Historic Landmarks in Northern Kentucky It was built in 1821 and expanded sometime prior to 1861.
Retrofitting existing buildings with new infrastructure has always presented challenges. Installing modern home automation and environmental monitoring systems is no exception.
The first lighting retrofit of the house was to add gas light, probably sometime during the 1870's The second may have been to complement the gas lights with electric ones -- perhaps to the puzzlement of folks still trying to figger out how the 'lectricity was going to flow through a pipe with no hole.
The 19th Century fin-de- siècle approach to modernization was -- as it was at the turn of the last century -- to find someone to do it who has it figgered out and avoid them folks what haven't. Plus ça change ...
Or --better yet --"Do It Yourself " (DIY*) in the spirit of "Uncle Dan" Beard. _________________________
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