Kevin Uhlir has been in contact. He’s built a lovely clock by using a Raspberry Pi. Built into the screen of an old monitor, the Pi retrieves data from Weather Underground and maps from Google Maps. He’s built several of the…
Category: Home automation
Never leave the house on a rainy day without an umbrella again – Raspberry Pi + weather
An engineer over at Device Plus has come up with an over-engineered solution to the perennial problem of knowing when to take an umbrella with you. An ultrasonic sensor detects when someone has approached the front door, the Weather Underground…
Polish heating system gets an upgrade with Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames owns a house in Poland with a heating problem: the furnace and the general system are like something out of the stone age and Poland, being the way it is, is often very cold. So, he’s brought a…
Control your terrarium with a Raspberry Pi and Energenie
A terrarium really is a beautiful thing. Tom Bennet has placed a temperature sensor inside his terrarium box and then hooked up a Raspberry Pi to it. The Pi controls an Energenie home automation switch to maintain the environment inside. Take…
Improved hot tub controller run by a Raspberry Pi
Ted Hale has improved upon his Hot Tub Controller. The latest iteration is mounted directly next to the tub and does the following: Monitor the water temperature Turn a circulation pump and heater on to heat the water as needed…
Controlling a garage door over the internet using a Raspberry Pi
Don Howdeshell (who previously taught his daughter not to wake her parents up at an un-godly hour using a Pi) wanted to allow his wife to control the garage door from the Android tablet mounted in her car. So, he interfaced…
Building a water meter for your home with a Raspberry Pi
David Schneider lives in North Carolina, but used to live in California. Both States have suffered from water shortages to a lesser or greater extent and so he decided to implement a water meter system using an Arduino (to take…
Control ALL THE THINGS with the Raspberry Pi
Over at Makezine.com, Neil Davenport has used a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino and some other basic circuitry to build a speech interpreter that controls devices around the home. He uses the set-up with some off-the-shelf devices such as lights, and even a…
Make your own Netflix-enabling button
So you want to watch Netflix on the television, dim your lights and order pizza at the same time? At the push of a button? Well, now you can with this nifty project that’s been put up on the Netflix…
Bathroom moisture extraction controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Dave Hunt’s bathroom didn’t have extractor fans fitted when the house was originally built. He decided to overkill the problem by having a Raspberry Pi control some new fans he fitted. He uses AM2302 humidity sensors to detect the moisture…