Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi Home Automation Using Energenie Pi-mote Control Geeky gadgets The post was written by Gordon Hollingworth and explains how to use the Raspberry Pi and a Energenie GPIO plugin board to activate and close electrical sockets. The Energenie Pi-mote starter pack is available to purchase for £19.99 and includes two
Ben here – Liz is currently non-functional due to her body having no idea what time it was when she arrived at the office this morning after landing back from San Francisco at the weekend. Raspberry Pi Projects is a fantastic book from Wiley, the publishers of Eben and Gareth’s Raspberry Pi User Guide and Carrie Anne’s Adventures in Raspberry Pi . It’s written by two great Pioneers: Dr.
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Raspberry Pi Projects: a big book by Andrew Robinson and Mike Cook
Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi iProgrammer It is a second edition of a book previously called “Smart Home Automation with Linux” and you need to be warned right at the start that the “and Raspberry Pi ” tagged onto the title of this edition is more about marketing than content. There is the …
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Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi – iProgrammer
The shelves in my living room are groaning under the weight of DVD boxed sets – and I just can’t bring myself to sit down and rip them all. All that waiting around! And it’s impossible to remember that you’re going to have to swap discs to and from a drive every hour or so
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Jack the (DVD) Ripper
DVICE DIY Home Automation With A Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Australia The system is relatively simple, and taps into a Spotify client on the Raspberry Pi , and lighting controls that run on X10 modules. It's a pretty slick approach, and if you're thinking about getting started with home automation, Hamilton's project is a ..
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DIY Home Automation With A Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker Australia
Pato is a little green bird who Jorge Rancé found, injured, on the street in Barcelona, and rescued. He was in a bad way, with a broken leg and the feathery equivalent of a terrible hair day. Pato after a visit to the vet, his broken leg in plaster Jorge took Pato to the vet to be patched up, and took him home to recuperate in a large birdcage at his house
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Pato surveillance system
We’ve see a lot of clever irrigation devices for gardeners being made with the Pi, but PiPlanter is the most complete (and the best documented) system we’ve seen so far.
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PiPlanter: a plant growth monitor
Mobile Magazine Siri Acts as a Home Automation Remote Thanks to Raspberry Pi Mobile Magazine That's exactly what Youtube user “Elvis Impersonator” set out to do using his iPhone and a SiriProxy-loaded Raspberry Pi . The results are that he can now control the thermostat at his home, shut off and dim lights, open/close the garage and even change …
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Presented without comment, because it’s perfect as it is. Thanks to John (would you believe this is his first ever bit of Python?), and thank you Judd! Python script and CAD design are available at NYCCNC
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Judd would like a treat.