My home is a 600 square foot rectangle armed with an iMac, a handful of X-10 controllers, some temperature sensors, a camera, and a private IRC server. Geoloqi detects when my phone has entered the radius defined as “home” and sends a message to the lights to switch on. It does the same when I leave the radius defined as home. The lights turn off. There’s a box in the closet running a custom IRC server with an IRC bot named Loqi. Loqi can set timers, remember information, store things on an internal WordPress site called “The Brain”, leave messages for other users when they are away, start the music, turn on and off the lights, set the lights on timers and countdowns, and tell jokes. The webcam is pointed at the whiteboard in the living room so that we can see the whiteboard remotely. Loqi, the X-10 controllers, webcam, location-based lighting system and the private IRC server were set up by my partner Aaron Parecki for less than $60.