This week I had a little problem because I grabbed an unlabeled box, and it was not the box I thought it was.

The problem is sometimes I am too busy to label my boxes, and by that I mean most of the time.  All, maybe?  I think there must be one box that is labeled...

Solution?  Add a label maker to the Reactron network.  Then I will be able to use voice recognition already handled by the network to simply print out a label on demand, rather than use a serializing interface to slowly and painfully create and print labels the normal way.  I found a cheap label maker for $20, we'll see if I break it or manage to add it to the network, there is some hacking to do.

This is a really simple hack but that really is the point of Reactron Overdrive. One simple added node to solve a specific problem, but then the node is there and available for other future as-yet-unknown uses.  The point is to augment life's workflows, improve them, and ultimately have less undesired or inefficient machine interface time.  (I'm all for desirable machine interface time, making labels is not that.)