UK IT Specialist Unable to Boil Water, Make Tea

From hackaday.com 7 years ago in Blogs

In our latest episode of “IoT-Schadenfreude Theater” we bring you the story of [Mark], a British man who can’t boil water. Or more specifically, a man who can’t integrate MQTT with Amazon Echo, or IFTTT with HomeKit. Yes, yes. We all love to laugh at a technology in its infancy....

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