I was sent one of these to review by Energenie. No preconditions for it – I’m free to say what I like. The box contains a Raspberry Pi GPIO plug-in board and two sockets. The board itself is tiny and plugs directly into…
Category: Home automation
GardenPi: Garden care with your #RaspberryPi
Shawn Anderson wanted to be lazy and automate the watering of his garden based on the likelihood of rain. So, he programmed his Pi to get a forecast from the Forecast.io API and then put together a system whereby a solenoid…
Home Energy Centre using a #RaspberryPi and Nook Simple Touch
Raspberry Pi Foundation forum user Gaz99 has developed a Home Energy Centre which uses a Pi to collect Solar PV data and Solar Thermal (hot water) information along with the weather and turn this into an easy to understand display that is…
Cheap(ish) Home Automation with the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has just published this blog post which has Amy Mather controlling electrical sockets via a Raspberry Pi. She’s using an Energenie GPIO plugin board and extension block and controlling it via Python on the Pi. You can get…
#RaspberryPi-controlled aquaponics
This is another Instructable, this time from user matthewh415. (It) uses the IBC method of Aquaponics, with modifications to include a Raspberry Pi for controlling a pump, solenoid drain, and temperature probes for water and air temperatures. The relays and timing…
Behavioural science monitoring on a #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has posted about Katherine Scott‘s work to create a humane rat behavioural monitoring station using a Raspberry Pi. Cute little critters, really. Read more here.
One #RaspberryPi to rule them all in Home Automation
Daniel Nordness and his room-mates wanted to bring in some home automation. The problem was they had a whole variety of equipment to be brought together to get the effect they wanted. Using a combination of Arduino and Raspberry Pi, they’ve…
IM status indicator nameplates with the #RaspberryPi
This is a nice project. Reagan Ward wanted to give people an idea of whether he and his colleagues were in the office or not. He wired up a Pi with some perfboard and some RGB LEDs, did some nifty…
Home automation with a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Lauren Orsini has done a lovely round-up of all kinds of options for home automation using both the Pi and the Arduino. It’s basically a collection of links to other articles but the piece has been put together really well…
ePaper weather station with #RaspberryPi and #Arduino derivative
Jeremy Blum has hacked an open source BADGEr which is an e-paper conference badge into a weather station using a Pi. The BADGEr is an e-paper display mounted on a shield with an ATMEGA328 onboard. He wrote some new firmware…