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Bit of an old post, but it’s still a great project to do!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bit of an old post, but it’s still a great project to do! Richard Lynch is a Boston, MA-based software engineer who loves the Raspberry Pi. He decided to use the Pi to monitor whether his garage door had opened.…<\/p>\n

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