A company called Remodo based in Honk Kong have developed a flexible remote control that works over Bluetooth and IR/HID to control functions on your Raspberry Pi and has created a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. Designed for home automation,…
For those of you who don’t follow cinema avidly, I should first of all say: There’s a new Star Wars movie out. This one’s called ‘Solo‘ and is about the early day of everyone’s favourite smuggler Han Solo. By all…
Ken Walker has developed an Alexa skill which uses a Raspberry Pi and camera to take a picture and then use APIs and online services to determine what the camera can see. The Alexa device (say, an Echo) then reads out…
A new issue of the venerable MagPi is out today. As you can see from the cover above, issue 70 is packed with useful news, tutorials, reviews and other stuff. The big feature this month is on home automation. Get…
You’ll either love it, or you’ll hate it. That’s the most important thing about the Fribo, a Korean research project. The Fribo is a black cat-alike construction with an in-built screen that, thanks to sensors and microphones, detects when someone…
Last year, Mozilla announced Project Things and now they’ve announced the release of an OS image for the Raspberry Pi which implements that idea. With the concept of bringing all your home IoT devices under one roof, and providing a web interface…
Kelly Hirano wanted to see how switching devices in his home on and off affected his electricity usage. Excited by the possibilities of reading the data from his SmartMeter, he discovered that he could buy a product (a Rainforest Eagle-200)…
It’s always nice when you see an engineering project that attempts to really help people, and this is one of the best I’ve come across. A recent hackathon, hackABILITY, brought together teams to concentrate on providing solutions to disabled people. One…
Here’s a nice project which is sure to get TV lovers making. BBTinkerer has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero W and some simple circuitry and wrapped it in a nice enclosure. This Pi device has been programmed to generate IR…
Colin O’Dell has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero W, an Adafruit 3.5″ touchscreen, a PIR motion sensor and a 3D-printed enclosure and created a home alarm control panel. The system uses Z-Wave door sensors which send MQTT messages to the Pi…
