On Thu, 02 Apr 2015, Paul Hayton wrote to Mark Hofmann:

 MH> The coffee and beer conversations are still on topic, since 
 MH> D'Bridge can brew coffee or open a beer via an event.  :)

 PH> Sounds like a project involving D'Bridge, an Ardunio and a bit of 
 PH> spare time! 

more like a spare serial or parallel port and a relay tied to something
like maybe an x10 type controller or even one of those goofy machines that
roll balls over a track to hit blocks and tumblers which finally end up
triggering the desired action at the end of the chain ;) 

)\/(ark