Arduino watches for a kitchen catastrophe
I guess I should start by admitting that this article was inspired by my own stupidity. When I was a kid, I left a frying pan on a lit stove. I was probably confused by the tactile controls on the vitroceramic hob. Unfortunately, I unwittingly turned the stove up to maximum. Thinking I had actually turned it off, I went to watch TV.
Some minutes later, the living room started filling with smoke. To make a long story short: The oil in the pan was on fire and, to make things worse, I tried to put it out by running it under a faucet.
So, I was a dumb teenager, but this kind of thing could happen to anyone. Fortunately, cheap and easy solutions are available for monitoring your home to minimize risks of fires, gas leaks, and damage by water.
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