I woke up one morning running later than usual and had to rush to make it in to open the office on time. I had meetings booked all morning and so no chance to really start the day off other than to jump right in. As I was heading in I was thinking to myself wouldn’t it be nice to have been able to send a message to our coffee maker to get it started, maybe turn on the lights and have everything done to save some time. It was out of this thinking the pi powered was born.