OverviewAlthough the time has passed to submit to the Home Automation challenge, issues seen previously during the project work have been resolved. In the last post for this project, the GPIO features of the MATRIX Creator were to be shown however th...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll OverviewThis is my last post for the Home Automation Project14 even...

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Before starting with the project, I would like to thank tariq.ahmad for providing me with a free MATRIX Creator and Raspberry Pi 3B boards for the Home Automation Project14 Competition. If you would like to see my other Home Automation projects, che...

Note: This project is for fun purposes only. Not a commercial solution as a whole.                            ...

I'd like to share the diaper logger that I created when my daughter was born. This is my entry to the Home Automation monthly contest.   I was looking for a project to work on and my wife said "I just need help with the baby". So naturally, I s...

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This is my blog submission for the Home Automation in Project14 .Idea and Aim of the project - The idea for this project is to make a voice based home automation system with a emergency detection for notification and safety guidance via SMS.Thus this...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll OpenHAB 2 MQTT Binding for the MATRIX Creator OverviewThis pos...

1、 Introduction Normal clock runs with internal oscillation and the alarm shall be manually set. While the basic function of smart home shall be connected with the internet and reveal more information. This smart clock has no push buttons, all the i...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll Setting up OpenHAB 2 Exec Binding for the MATRIX Creator Overv...

The Smart Room Project - Current Phase   1. Introduction 2. Plan and Inspiration 3. Hardware Main Box Switches and lamp Universal Box 3. Software Arduino MKR1000 Code Android 4. Testing 5. Long Period Testing 6. What's next? 7. Summary...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll PART 5 - THE HOUSE HUB: From blog posts 1 through 4, we provid...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll Smart is a widely used adjective nowadays- smartphones, smart bulbs...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll Interfacing the Matrix Creator with MATRIX Lite Python Overvie...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll Home Automation with OpenHAB 2 and Matrix CreatorIntroduction ...

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so, I am using Arduino Nano for this home automation project. and a Bluetooth module for controlling the home appliances using smart phone. the relay is used to turn O/OFF the mains(230 v) by using 5 v control signal form Arduino Nano through a trans...

For a while, Home Automation has been an interesting area to explore for me. But living in a rented house, changing the electrical connections (or hacking them) or the aesthetics is not allowed to an extent. So I have chosen an extension box which I ...

Previous post in this blog sequence:Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 - Part 2 Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 - part 3 - Let there be (better) light!  When I haven't been tending to the 3D printer, buzzing busily, ...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll Ok, most of the so-called smart thermostats aren't very smart. The ...

Using telgram API, you can talk to your home and ask it to do things anywhere from the world. Totally secure and configurable.

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll PART 4- ACTUATION:In part 1, Connor and I presented our three found...

Home AutomationEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 HomeMonthly ThemesMonthly Theme Poll In part 1, Connor and I presented our three foundational blocks of ...

Previous post in this blog sequence: Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 Kitchen Lighting System Phase 2 - Part 2 One of my goals for this project was to increase the light output of the LED pucks. Here is the latest generation of the light puck. ...