Okay, they show you how you can take an 80's mechanical thermostat and put their parts in. But, why not go all the way and put a link in explaining how you can add ethernet or Wi-Fi connectivity so you can monitor and set this thing from anywhere in the world? How to set a 6 digit PIN, etc.
If you're out for the day, you sure want to turn the device off (or set the target so that you sae energy) and you want the thing up and running 10 minutes before you return home - so you'd ideally like to send the thing an email over the internet (how do you do a secure transaction unless you have the ability to put an embedded HTTPS server into your thermostat?) before you leave work.
Why not put together a demo showing how you can accomplish all this with products readily available from MCP and give the source code away and show people how to hack it and include the cost of developing this in the cost of the product? Some people see things as they are and ask why; I see things as they may be and ask why not.
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