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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
Book Image

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By: Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects addresses the challenge of applying real-world projects to automate your house using Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino. You will learn how to customize and program the Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino-based boards in several home automation projects around your house. This book aims to help you integrate different microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3 into the real world, taking the best of these boards to develop some exciting home automation projects. We will start with an interesting project creating a Raspberry Pi Powered smart mirror and move on to Automated Gardening System, which will help you build a simple smart gardening to keep your garden healthy with minimal effort. You will also learn to build projects such as CheerLights into a holiday display, a project to erase parking headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi 3, create Netfl ix's "The Switch" for the living room and lock down your house like Fort Knox with a Windows IoT face recognition-based door lock system. By the end of the book, you will be able to build and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects and bring a new degree of inter connectivity to your world.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Summary

CheerLights is a fun and simple collaborative project to start with in your home automation journey. In this chapter, we also learned how to control NeoPixels, which are individually addressable LEDs. What you can do with the NeoPixels is only limited by your imagination. The NeoPixels are ridiculously easy to control and they can be used for some interesting automation projects. Some more practical applications can be to indicate system status of server racks on your workstation desk or to create floating ticker boards. Let your imagination run wild and share what you create!

In the next chapter, we are going to learn how to create a parking space monitor to automatically alert you when your designated parking space is occupied using a machine learning system to ease your vehicle parking headaches. Excited? Read on to learn more.

Cheers!

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