Home Automation

Before the “digital age” many families used wall calendars to show a monthly view of upcoming events. This modern version of the wall mounted calendar includes the same basic functions: A monthly agenda Sync of family members activities Easy browse between monthsBeyond those basic functions this gadget will also handle: A whether forecast Upcoming events in the surrounding area Live information about the public transport And even more... What you need: Raspberry Pi 2 USB Wifi Dongle. (Like Edimax 150Mbps Wireless nano ) LCD laptop screen (take one from a broken laptop http://www.instructables.com/id/Old-laptop-screen... Controller card for the laptop screen (search Ebay for LCD Controller Driver Board and the serial number of your laptop screen) Some Push Button Switches (Like http://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Start-Horn-Button-Mom... ) Webserver running a custom made homepage Piece of wood. Height should be more than 30mm, so the electronics can fit inside. The width and height depends on the size ...

NanoPi2 were released on the market. Before playing with it in a project, read here the most interesting seven features of the board.

There are many different ways to keep your plants watered on a schedule. [Luca Dentella] just created a new one by building the irrighino watering system. He used standard off the shelf, hardware to keep it simple.

[ZPriddy] was looking for a way to control his Nest thermostats with Amazon Echo. He didn’t want to settle for using AWS or some other hosted service. [ZPriddy] wanted something that he could host and manage completely on his own.

For a few years now I’ve been developing an interactive army of delta robots.

A lot of us take roads for granted, at least until they are icy or torn up by construction. The concept of creating fixed paths seems to be in our firmware.

More and more home automation projects are integrated into an Internet of Things (IoT) perspective. For example, you want to monitor what’s going on in your home remotely, no matter if you are in your living room or at the other end of the world.

Enable your Raspberry to control relay, led, sensor and digital input remotely with Phidget WebService. The Phidget WebService is a background proces...

As smartphones continue to get bigger and bigger, the race to have the smallest chip running Unix (or Linux, as the case may be) is still on.