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Build your own Raspberry Pi terrarium controller

Tom Bennet grows Nepenthes , tropical carnivorous plants that I know by the name of pitcher plants. To stay healthy they need a temperature- and humidity-controlled environment, and Tom ensures this by housing them in a terrarium controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3 and Energenie’s Pi-Mote starter kit , which provides an easy way to control mains electrical sockets from a Pi. He has written step-by-step instructions to help you build your own terrarium controller , the first such guide we’ve seen for this particular application.

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How to build automatic entry lights with a Raspberry Pi – Techradar India

How to build automatic entry lights with a Raspberry Pi Techradar India First, we need to attach the Energenie to the first 26 pins of the GPIO on your powered-down Raspberry Pi . (For reference, pin 1 is the pin nearest the SD card slot.) The board will fit neatly over the Raspberry Pi with no parts hanging over. Now ..

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How to build automatic entry lights with a Raspberry Pi | TechRadar – Techradar India

How to build automatic entry lights with a Raspberry Pi | TechRadar Techradar India First, we need to attach the Energenie to the first 26 pins of the GPIO on your powered-down Raspberry Pi . (For reference, pin 1 is the pin nearest the SD card slot.) The board will fit neatly over the Raspberry Pi with no parts hanging over. Now …

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Remote twerking robot

Dan Aldred, of Pig Love Pi Glove  fame, has been working on a new project. He’s been using an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board with his Pi to record the signals from a remote control and then transmit these signals back to a device

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Raspberry Pi Home Automation Using Energenie Pi-mote Control – Geeky gadgets

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

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Controlling electrical sockets with Energenie Pi-mote

Last Christmas I decided I had spent enough time bending over the various chairs to reach the switch to turn on and off the Christmas tree lights.

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Amy Mather’s week of work experience

Liz: A few weeks ago, over the Easter holidays, we had Amy Mather, 14 years old and surpassing fantastic, come and visit us for a week’s work experience. (Check out this talk she gave at last year’s Jamboree, aged only 13; see another talk she gave at Wired with Clive, our Director of Education, and read about her in The MagPi, where she was the cover star last June.

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