An Intelligent garage door controller
I have a plan. With the TI CC11XL dev kit that accompanied the Keysight N9322C spectrum analyzer Road Test, I would like to develop an intelligent garage door controller. The video below lays down the broad strokes of the design concept. The probability of successfully completing this design project before the blogging challenge deadline is not great as there will simply not be enough time available in my days to get everything done. But, I plan to carry on beyond the deadline should early results be encouraging.
For those who prefer reading to watching, the goal is to cobble together a GPS receiver, a couple of TI CC11XL dev boards with appropriate RF modules and hack into an existing garage door opener to make an intelligent system that mimics the behavior of a human approaching or departing a garage in a car thereby increasing collective laziness and adding to the obviously unnecessary heap of electronic products cluttering our lives.
The TI CC11XL's with RF modules will provide a data communication link between the garage door opener and the mobile device in the car. The GPS receiver will provide spatial awareness to the mobile device. Spatial awareness data will be combined with geographical fence definitions to give the mobile device the intelligence necessary to know when to, and when not to, request a door status change.
Throughout the prototyping process I see the Keysight N9322C spectrum analyzer (I've dropped the "basic" descriptor because it doesn't make sense to me to call an instrument as powerful as the N9322C "basic") being used to characterize and assess various components in the system.
So many project ideas, such cool test equipment and awesome dev kits, yet so little spare time! Curse you Element14 for making my hobby so enriching and rewarding! 
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