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Don Howdeshell<\/a> (who previously taught his daughter not to wake her parents up at an un-godly hour<\/a>\u00a0using a Pi) wanted to allow his wife to control the garage door from the Android tablet mounted in her car. So, he interfaced a Raspberry Pi with the mechanism and hey, presto, that is in fact what he managed to do. Read about the build on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Howdeshell (who previously taught his daughter not to wake her parents up at an un-godly hour\u00a0using a Pi) wanted to allow his wife to control the garage door from the Android tablet mounted in her car. So, he interfaced…<\/p>\n

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