Kickstarter Alert: Light by RocketLife Makes Creative Lighting a Snap GeekDad Customizable, programming lighting strips are nothing new and these days, hardly worth getting excited about. Inexpensive, individually-addressable LED strips …
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Kickstarter Alert: Light by RocketLife Makes Creative Lighting a Snap – GeekDad
Earlier this year, I was asked to be a judge for the element14 Pi IoT Smarter Spaces Design Challenge. It has been fantastic to be involved in a contest where so many brilliant ideas were developed. The purpose of the competition was to get designers to use a kit of components that included Raspberry Pi, various accessories, and EnOcean products, to take control of the spaces they are in.
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element14 Pi IoT Smarter Spaces Design Challenge
We spotted this aquarium project on YouTube, and were struck with searing pangs of fishy jealousy; imagine having a 2000-litre slice of the Cayman Islands, complete with the weather as it is right now , in your living room. aMGee has equipped his (enormous) tropical fish tank, full of corals as well as fish, with an IoT Raspberry Pi weather system. It polls a weather station in the Cayman Islands every two minutes and duplicates that weather in the tank: clouds; wind speed and direction; exact sunset and sunrise times; and moon phase, including the direction the moon travels across the tank
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Aquarium lighting and weather system
Build Your Own Ambient TV Lighting System With A Raspberry Pi And XBMC Lifehacker Australia Blogger Christian Moser decided the best course of action was to build his own with a Raspberry Pi .
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Build Your Own Ambient TV Lighting System With A Raspberry Pi And XBMC – Lifehacker Australia
Add Voice Control To Your Home With LightwaveRF And A Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Australia The system here uses a LightwaveRF system to control the lights, and then taps into the Raspberry Pi which controls everything else. As designed, the system can control the lighting and a few other electronics.
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Add Voice Control To Your Home With LightwaveRF And A Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker Australia
DVICE DIY Your Own Home Audio and Lighting Automation with a Raspberry Pi Lifehacker 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 system, and if you're thinking about getting started with home automation, Hamilton's project is a … Video of the Day: Automate your home with Raspberry Pi DVICE all 2 news articles
Frederik and Ernest Lotter from Blue Horizon Embedded Systems in South Africa are driving from the UK to South Africa via Russia and the Middle East, taking in seventeen countries on their way. They are making the journey in a Land Rover Defender which is fitted with a Raspberry Pi-based distributed light control system
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Frederik and Ernest’s Europe – Middle East – Africa roadtrip
Here’s a guest post from our friend Pete Wood at RS Component’s community arm, DesignSpark.
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Guest post from DesignSpark: Oxford Raspberry Jam
David Singleton has been laid up with a broken leg, and has taken the downtime to do some work on PiUi. PiUi enables you to add a mobile phone user interface to a Raspberry Pi project when a screen and keyboard aren’t a practical solution. It’s magic: PiUi makes your Pi behave like a wireless access point, and connecting your phone is as easy as…[restrains self from making obvious bad pun].
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PiUi – control your Pi with your phone