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Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784399207
Pages 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Andrew K. Dennis Andrew K. Dennis
Profile icon Andrew K. Dennis

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Home Automation 2. Getting Started – Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi and Arduino 3. Central Air and Heating Thermostat 4. Temperature Storage – Setting Up a Database to Store Your Results 5. Parcel Delivery Detector 6. Curtain Automation – Open and Close the Curtains Based on the Ambient Light 7. Water/Damp Detection – Check for Damp/Flooding in Sheds and Basements 8. Wrapping Up References Index

The future of home automation


The Raspberry Pi and Arduino are two great technologies to create home automation projects. As they continue to grow, the tasks that we will be able to achieve at home using homebrew devices will grow even larger.

Let's take a look of some of the other tools that will become increasingly available to home enthusiasts.

3D printing

3D printing is a method of taking a three-dimensional image and then printing it in a substance such as plastic or metal. The advent of cheaper 3D printing has provided home automation enthusiasts with a new tool for their arsenal. 3D printing's ability to create custom cases and brackets for devices, and then print these in plastic provides a gateway to a whole new world of exciting designs.

Printers such as the Makerbot have opened up 3D printing to the home market. For those who can't afford a 3D printer at home, there are services such as Shapeways (http://www.shapeways.com/), which allows the customer to upload a 3D image to the website...

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